Lars Erik Larsen

Lars Erik Larsen

Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-0730-5555

Lars Erik Larsen (born 1963) holds a full professorship in veterinary virology and has worked with virus infections in production animals for the last 20 years. He has been involved in research on swine viruses (diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, vaccinology and basic pathogenesis) for the last 15 years. Lars has participated in several national and European projects on enzootic swine viruses with focus on PRRSV, PCV-2 and swine influenza virus. He is the head of the enzootic/zoonotic virus research group at UCPH and are scientifically responsible for the national surveillance program for Avian and Swine influenza viruses and chairs the Danish expert committee for avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses. Lars is also responsible for the teaching of veterinary students in veterinary virology and is supervisor of a range of Ph.d., master and bachelor students. Lars is presently board member of the Danish Society of Virology. He has published more than 100 international peer reviewed papers on veterinary virology and has co-authored more than 300 other publications.

Current research

Major present projects:

FluZooMark - zoonotic aspects of swine influenza viruses - 2020-2025 - Novo Nordisk Foundation - 60 mill. DKK

PRRSV - sequencing, opathogeneses, vaccine strategies- 2020 - SEGES - 400.000 DKK

PRRSV - impact of mass vaccination - Svine levy foundation/European PRRSV award - 450.000 DKK

Svine influenza virus -  diversity, diagnostics,  control - 2020 - 490.000 DKK

Possible conflicts of interest

Below is a list of cooperation with private companies and institutions

Title and sponsor

(private entities in bold)

Activity

Participants

(private entities in bold)

Period

A plant-produced immunoenhanced pig vaccine against PRRS PIGVAC. Danish Strategic Research Council

 

Research project

University of Århus (AU); SEGES Innovation; Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany; DTU; IVI, Switzerland;

2014- 2018

Viral diseases in mink. Danish Fur.

Research project

Danish Fur, DTU

2014-2015

Control of PRRSV in Denmark. SEGES

Research project

SEGES INNOVATION

2014-2015

Control of highly virulent/pathogenic European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses – KilleuPRRS. ANIWHA

Research project

University of Gent, Belgium; IVI, Switzerland;  VLA, UK

2015-2018

Objective surveillance of swine diseases. Svineafgiftsfonden

Research project

SEGES INNOVATION, KU, DTU

2015- 2017

ADV – epidemiology and infection dynamics. Minkafgiftsfonden

Research project

DTU, Danish Fur

2016- 2017

Swine influenza – impact and control. IDT; CEVA and SEGES

Research project

DTU, IDT (Germany); SEGES INNOVATION

2016-2020

PCV2, PCV3 and PRRSV in Danish swine. SEGES and CEVA AH, France

Research project

DTU, SEGES INNOVATION, CEVA AH, France

2016-2017

Sekvensanalyse af patogener hos kvæg. SEGES

Research project

SEGES INNOVATION

2018

Influenza in mink – pathogenesis and control. Minkafgiftsfonden

Research project

Danish Fur

2018-2019

OUA project. GUDP

Research project

Danish Crown, SEGES INNOVATION, DTU, SSI

2017-2021

Robuste kalve. KAF

Research project

SEGES INNOVATION, AU, DTU

2018-2021

PRRSV control. Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany

Research project

Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany; DTU

2019

PPV sequencing and cross reactivity. Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany

Collaborative project

Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany; DTU

2019

PRRSV mass vaccination.

Svineafgiftsfondet

Research project

SEGES INNOVATION, DTU, MSD Animal Health

2019-2020

PRRSV award. Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany;

Research Award

Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany; DTU

2020

Zoonotic impact of swine influenza viruses. NNF

Research project

SSI, DTU, St. Jude hospital, Memphis, US

2020-2025

Invited participation in national and international meetings on viral infections sponsored by private entities

Presentations; scientific discussions

Boehringer Ingleheim AH, Germany; CEVA Animal Health, France; MSD AH, US; HIPRA, Spain; Zoetis AH, Spain

2015-

Meetings on viral infections in swine. SEGES

Presentations; scientific discussions; written assessments

SEGES

2015-

PRRSV expert panel member. Pig333 website (Hipra, Spain)

Answer of questions raised by veterinarians globally

Hipra, Spain

2016-

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