Professor Bente Langdahl

Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Bente Langdahl is Professor at Aarhus University and the Department of Endocrinology at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. She graduated from the medical school at Aarhus University in 1988 and did her clinical training in endocrinology at Aarhus University Hospital. She attained her PhD: “Investigations on a possible pathogenic role of thyroid hormones in postmenopausal osteoporosis”. and her DMSc: “The genetics of bone mass and risk of osteoporotic fractures” at Aarhus University.
Bente Langdahl’s main research interests are the development of new treatments and the long-term management of osteoporosis, the impact of diabetes, thyroid diseases, and HIV on bone health, and osteogenesis imperfecta in adults. She has more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Bente Langdahl has received the ECTS Philippe Bordier Award, the ASBMR Frederic C. Bartter Award and the DBS Mosekilde Award. Bente Langdahl is past-president of ECTS and past-chair of IFMRS.