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Dr. Line Matthiessen-Guyader

ROUNDTABLE SESSION: Strengthening systems for research for health: How can we enhance local ownership and local priority setting in the South? 

Dr. Line Matthiessen leads the Unit responsible for Infectious Diseases and Public Health in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. The Unit promotes and supports EU research and innovation activities in the area of global health issues with emphasis on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, emerging epidemics, neglected infectious diseases and antimicrobial drug resistance, as well as activities in public health and health systems research. The Unit also supports the implementation of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and contributes to global coordination efforts in Poverty Related and Neglected Infectious Diseases.

Dr Matthiessen was Head of Unit for horizontal aspects and coordination in the Directorate for Biotechnologies, Agriculture and Food Research from 1. July 2007 - December 2010.

Dr. Matthiessen jointed the European Commission in 1992. She has been responsibly for strategic and policy issues in biotechnology. She held the position as principal scientific officer responsible for research in Neurosciences for several years. She has also been scientific officer in the area of Somatic gene therapy, Animal cell technology and in vitro testing as alternatives to animal experiments.

Dr. Line Matthiessen was trained as an MD at the University of Odense, Denmark and received her PhD in Neurosciences from the University of Paris VI, France in 1993.