Tore Bjerregaard Stage has been awarded the BCPT Young Researcher Nordic Prize for 2022 in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Tore Bjerregaard Stage was born in 1987, Odense, Denmark, and studied pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), from 2007-12. After graduation, he completed his PhD in clinical pharmacology at SDU from 2012-15, and the title of the thesis was: ”Pharmacogenetics and Drug Interactions in Relation to Treatment with Metformin”. Hereafter, he held a position as a postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, from 2016-17. After his return to Denmark, he was assistant professor at Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Department of Public Health, SDU, from 2017-19. Since 2019, he has been associate professor at the same department.