Borislava Ananieva
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Steffen Thirstrup is a medical doctor and board-certified specialist in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics.Since June 2022 Prof Thirstrup has been the Chief Medical Officer at the European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
From 2004 to 2009, he worked at Danish Medicines Agency first as the Danish member of CHMP at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for five years including 10 months as joint CHMP- and CAT-member, and then as head of Danish Institute for Rational Pharmacotherapy dealing with HTA and best practice guidelines for primary care. In 2011, he rejoined the licensing division at the Danish Medicines Agency acting as Head of Division for Medicines Assessment and Clinical Trials. During this period Prof Thirstrup co-chaired the European Commission’s working group on market access for biosimilars medicinal products and acted as key scientific contact for the managing entity of the IMI beneficiaries for the PROTECT collaboration (Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European ConsorTium). In 2013, he joined the pharmaceutical consultancy company NDA Group AB as a full-time medical advisor on NDA’s regulatory advisory board. In 2014, he was appointed as director for the Regulatory Advisory Board at NDA Regulatory Services Ltd.
He is author of more than 40 scientific papers, guidelines and text-book chapters as well as coeditor of 5th edition of Basal og Klinisk Farmakologi (Medical school pharmacology textbook in Danish). He holds a PhD in pharmacology and has a long background in clinical internal medicine with special emphasis on adult respiratory medicine. Additionally, he was appointed adjunct professor in pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, in 2012.
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