Claus Christiansen
Chairman

Professor Claus Christiansen is Charimann of Nordic Bioscience A/S, and Executive Director and Chairmann of CCBR/Synarc. He received his medical education at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1971, and held the post of Head of the Department of Clinical Pathology and Clinical Chemistry, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen for 14 years.

Hereafter he founded Center for Clinical and Basic Research (CCBR) where he was the Executive Director from October 1992 – December 1996 and from November 1999 – February 2007. Over the past 30 years, Professor Christiansen has published extensively in the field of osteoporosis with over 900 articles and book chapters, particularly in the area of calcium metabolism in postmenopausal women. 

He has been Chairman of several international symposia on osteoporosis, and has been an invited speaker on calcium metabolism at almost all international meetings in the field.  In addition, he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Bone and Osteoporosis International.