Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE Leena Peltonen-Palotie, M.D., Ph.D. |
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EDUCATION
M.D., University of Oulu 1976
Ph.D., University of Oulu 1978
Docent in Cell Biology, University of Oulu 1982
Docent in Molecular Genetics, University of Helsinki 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
M.D., Ph.D. Student, Collagen Research Unit , University of Oulu, Finland 1973 – 1976
Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry ,Rutgers Medical School, NJ, USA 1978 – 1980
Acting Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Oulu, Finland 1981 – 1984
Senior Scientist of The Academy of Finland, Recombinant DNA Laboratory, University of Helsinki 1985 – 1986
Head of the Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Finland 1987 – 1991
Professor of Molecular Biology, Director of the Molecular Biology Program,
National Public Health Institute 1991 – 1994
Professor, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute 1995 – 1998
Chairman and Professor of Department of Human Genetics, UCLA 1998 – 2002
Professor of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki and
National Public Health Institute, Finland 2002 – 2003
Academy Professor, the Academy of Finland 2003 – 2007
Co-ordinator, The Nordic Center of Excellence in Disease Genetics 2004 -
Visiting
Professor, the Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard, University of Cambridge, MA,
USA 2005 –
Research director, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University
of Helsinki and
National Institute for Health and Welfare,
Finland 2007 -
Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome
Trust, Sanger Institute, UK 2007 -
SEVERAL POSITIONS HELD IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES INCLUDE:
Chairman of the Finnish Connective Tissue Society 1984 – 1985
Chairman, Finnish Society of Medical Genetics 1990 – 1992
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Member 1991 –
Human Genome Organization, Member of the International Council 1991 – 1998
European Society of Human Genetics, Member of the Council 1992 – 2000
National Academy of Sciences, Finland, Member 1993 –
Hereditary Disease Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board Member 1999 – 2002
European Academy of Sciences (Academiae Europeae), Member 1999 –
American Society of Human Genetics, Member, Board of Directors 2001 – 2004
European Society of Human Genetics, President 2004 – 2005
Societas Scienterum Fennica, Member 2002 –
Chair, Populations and Public Health Strategy Committee, Wellcome Trust 2004 -
HUGO – President 2005 - 2007
Member, Scientific Board of European Research Council 2005 -
Foreign Associate Member in the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, USA 2006 -
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:
Chairman of the Medical Research Council of Finland (Academy of Finland) 1995 – 1997
EURESCO Scientific Steering Committee, Member 1996 – 1998
Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden, Member 1996 –
Chairman of the European Medical Research Council 1996 – 1998
Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland, Member 1996 – 1998
CSC of Finland (Center of Scientic Computing), Member of the Board 1995 – 1998
International Bioethics Committee, UNESCO, Member 1998 – 2003
Scientific Advisory Board of the Genome Research Programme, Foundation for Strategic Research,
Sweden, Member 1999 –
Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Member 2000 – 2002
International Advisory Board, SWEGENE, Sweden, Member 2000 – 2004
Scientific Advisory Board, Marshfield Medical Research and
Education Foundation’s Medicine Program, Member 2001 – 2002
Scientific Advisory Board of UK Biobanks, Member 2001 –
Chair, International Jury of the Netherlands Genome Initiative 2001 – 2003
Member, Board of Genetics Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation 2001 –
Scientific Advisory Board of the Shanghai Genome Center, Member 2002 –
Scientific Advisory Board, Genome Canada, Member 2002 – 2003
Board of Publicly Funded Population Projects in Genomics (P3G) 2004 –
Wellcome Trust, Populations and Public Health Strategy Committee, Chair 2005 –
UNIK International
Expert Panel, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
2008 –
2013
International Advisory Panel (IAP) - Government of Catalonia - Catalan
Pact for Research and Innovation 2007 –
Future Trends Forum (FTF), Bankinter Foundation of Innovation, Spain
2008 –
EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
Member of the Editorial Board:
Psychiatric Genetics 1989 –
Molecular and Cellular Probes 1990 – 2002
European Journal of Human Genetics 1991 – 2004
Human Mutation 1991 – 2004
American Journal of Medical Genetics 1992 –
Biological Chemistry 1994 – 2000
Human Molecular Genetics 1994 – 2004
Genome Research 1995 – 1999
Gene Function & Disease 2000 –
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 2000 –
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 2000 –
Annals of Human Genetics 2008 –
Editor-in-Chief:
Annals of Medicine 1990 – 1994
PRIZES AND AWARDS:
The Antoine Marfan Award (The National Marfan Foundation, USA) 1992
The Anders Jahre Prize for young scientist, Poul Astrup Prize 1992
Matti Äyräpää Prize (Finland) 1993
Woman of the Year (Finland) 1994
Lennox K. Black Prize (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) 1996
Mauro Bachirotto Prize (European Society of Human Genetics) 1997
Gordon & Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics-UCLA 1999
Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Millennium Promotion 2000
Ribicoff Lecturer, Yale University, Naomi M. Kanof Clinical Investigator Award Lectureship,
The Society for Investigative Dermatology, USA 2001
Abbott Award of Molecular diagnostics, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine 2002
The Margaret Pittman Lectureship Award, National Institute of Health, USA 2004
Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Joensuu, Finland 2004
European
van Gysel Prize for Biomedical Research 2006
Eric K. Fernströms Nordiska
Priset 2006
Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Univ of Cambridge, UK
2008 - 2013
ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION:
524 original publications and 77 review articles in international scientific journals and books.
Supervised 71 Ph.D. theses.
