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Bente Klarlund Pedersen, MD MDSc, is Professor of Integrative Medicine, a specialist in infectious diseases and internal medicine and chief physician at Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the Director of Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS)(http://aktivsundhed.dk).

The research group has identified skeletal muscle as an endocrine organ that produces and releases so-called “myokines”. The identification of myokines provides a conceptual basis for understanding how muscles communicate with other organs. Through translational research, the aim is to develop targeted exercise training regimes for specific disease groups by applying a translational strategy: “from bedside to bench and back”.

BKP has more than 700 scientific publications, > 60.000 citations and her “H”-index is 123 (Web of Science).

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