Guro Valen (20 March 1960 – 26 September 2014) was a Norwegian professor of medicine. She was a daughter of political scientist

Henry Valen Henry Halfdan Valen (20 May 1924 – 27 January 2007) was a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Hadsel. He was appointed Professor at the University of Oslo from 1970. His main research interest has been electorate behavior. He cha ...

. She worked at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

Karolinska Institutet The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consiste ...

and the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

, and was a fellow of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

. She died from cancer in September 2014.

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1960 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Norwegian physicians Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norwegian women physicians 21st-century Norwegian physicians {{Norway-academic-bio-stub