Lars Erik Larsen

Lars Erik Larsen has worked with virus infections in production animals for the last 20 years. He has been involved in research on swine viruses (diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology and basic pathogenesis) for the last 10 years. Since 2010 he has been responsible for the diagnostic preparedness program and research regarding animal influenza virus. Lars has participated in several European projects on enzootic swine viruses. He is the leader of the of the enzootic virus research group at DTU and coordinate the national surveillance program on Avian and Swine influenza viruses.

He is currently Professor at University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Medical health Sciences, Department of veterinary and animal health sciences, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Lars has published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals and more than 150 other publications.

Updated CV 31-Jan-2020