Kirstine Roepstorff, Project management of Novo Nordisk A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark. Scientific challenges make he thrive, in particular if they are approached in collaboration with others. He is a highly engaged, efficient, and responsible research scientist and people manager. He has worked with drug discovery and development from the early identification of new drug targets through pre-clinical validation to early clinical development. A special interest of his is identification and validation of biomarkers for complex diseases.Personality: enthusiastic, engaging, ambitious, communicative, dynamic, data driven, team player.Key skills: Scientific leadership, people management and engagement, project management. Drug discovery, pathophysiology, histology, biomarker discovery and validation, execution of non-interventional clinical research studies, advanced microscopy, flow cytometry, cell biology.