Ulf Simonsen

Ulf (MD., Ph.D.) is trained as a medical doctor from Aarhus University and earned his Ph.D. in physiology from Complutense University, Madrid, Spain in 1994. He became a Professor of Pharmacology at Aarhus University in 2005 and head of the Department of Pharmacology from 2006-2011. In collaboration with Dr. Inigo Saenz de Tejada, Ulf Simonsen was the first to investigate the function of the smallest arteries in the penis (the “helicine” arteries), and since then he has been an active member of the European Society of Sexual Medicine, and Committee of World Health Organisation’s consultations on erectile dysfunction. The research group of Professor Ulf Simonsen has ample experience in preclinical models for erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease from cell to man, and the research group also participates in clinical studies. Author or co-author on more than 155 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, several book chapters, and a couple of patents.