Lene Cividanes

Lene Cividanes is Head of Research and International Relations at the Danish National Genome Center. She is a political scientist by training and she has a long track record of working with international affairs and strategy related to research and health policy, especially within personalised medicine.

Lene Cividanes joined the newly established National Genome Center in Denmark back in 2020 and has been a key player in the development of the Danish National Genome Center and the national coordination of implementation of personalised medicine and secondary use of genome data in Denmark.

Among other tasks Lene Cividanes is responsible for DNGC’s research services, advisory boards, international collaborations and the representation of Denmark in the 1+ Million Genomes Special Group. Furthermore, her team is deeply involved in a number of activities related to 1+ Million Genomes, including the Genomic Data Infrastructure Project, the Genome of Europe Project and the coordination of a European working group on health economics and outcomes research. Lene is also responsible for DNGC’s bilateral collaboration with key genome initiatives in Europe – and she looks very much forward to engage further with stakeholders at the Precision Medicine Network Forum in Riga.