Background
Vestergaard, Bent Faber was born on February 5, 1938 in Broenderslev, Denmark. Son of Rasmus Faber and Inger Birgitte (Larsen) Vestergaard.
Vestergaard, Bent Faber was born on February 5, 1938 in Broenderslev, Denmark. Son of Rasmus Faber and Inger Birgitte (Larsen) Vestergaard.
Doctor of Medicine, University Aarhus, Denmark, 1965. Doctor Medical Sciences, Copenhagen University, 1981.
Intern Booth Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1966. Research associate Cornell University Medical College, 1967-1970. Assistant professor University Copenhagen, 1971-1980.
Head enterovirus department Statens Serum Institute Denmark, Copenhagen, 1980-1990, head virology department, since 1990. Board directors European Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis, 1989-1997. Director World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Virus Reference and Research, head National Influenza Center, Copenhagen, since 1996.
Founding International Interdisciplinary Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Foundation, 1985. Member project management group European Conserted Action Against Viral Meningitis and Encephalitis, 1996-1998, European Union Conserted Action for Quality Control of Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques in Diagnostic Virology, 1999-2001.
Member International Union of Microbiol. Societies (national member virology division), American Academy Microbiology, Danish Society Virology (board directors 1991-1995), New York Academy of Sciences, European Society Clinical Virology.
Married Liselotte Taarup (1938-2016). by whom he had a son and a daughter.