Steffen Thirstrup is a medical doctor and board certified specialist in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. He holds a PhD in pharmacology and has a long background in clinical internal medicine with special emphasis on adult respiratory medicine. Additionally Dr. Thirstrup has been appointed adjunct professor in pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

From 2004-09 Steffen Thirstrup worked at the Danish Health and Medicines Authority (former 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 CATmember, followed by a short period as head of Danish Institute for Rational Pharmacotherapy dealing with HTA and best practice guidelines for primary care. In 2011 Prof. Thirstrup rejoined the licensing division at the Danish Health and Medicines Authority 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 March 2013 Prof Thirstrup joined the pharmaceutical consultancy company NDA Group as a full-time medical advisor on NDA’s regulatory advisory board. In April 2014 Prof Thirstrup was appointed as director for the Regulatory Advisory Board at NDA Regulatory Services Ltd.

Prof Thirstrup is author of more than 30 scientific papers, guidelines and text-book chapters as well as co-editor of 5th edition of Basal og Klinisk Farmakologi (Medical school pharmacology textbook in Danish).

Prof Thirstrup lives with his family in a small community (Værløse) just outside Copenhagen, Denmark