Kari Alitalo#
| Membership Number: | 3139 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2013 Director of the Wihuri Research Institute
- 2007 - 2012 Scientific Director, Molecular/Cancer Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki
- 2000 - 2011 Director, Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Cancer Biology, University of Helsinki
- 1999 - 2007 Director, Molecular/Cancer Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki
- since 1993 Academy Professor, Research Council for Health, The Academy of Finland
- 1988 - 1993 Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 1987 - 1988 Research Professor, The Finnish Cancer Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- 1986 - 1987 Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Turku, Finland
- 1983 - 1986 Research Fellow, Senior RF, State Medical Research Council, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Pathophysiology of cancer
- Tumor angiogenesis
- Metastasis
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1991 Member, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 1998 The Äyräpää Prize, Finland
- 1998 The Medix Prize for the Best Finnish Paper in the Biosciences in 1997
- 2002 The Lundbeck Foundation Nordic Prize, Denmark
- 2003 Leopold Griffuel Prize, France
- 2005 Pfizer Advances in Oncology Award
- 2005 Eric K Fernström Foundation's Nordic Prize, Sweden
- 2006 Louis-Jeantet Prize For Medicine, Switzerland
- 2009 Member, The Finnish Society of Science and Letters
- 2009 The InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize, Belgium
- 2009 Fellow of The European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2010 The Michael O’Connor Award, Mayo Clinic, USA
- 2010 The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize, Norway
- 2011 Moosa Plenary Award and Lecture, South Korea
- 2011 Earl P. Benditt Award and Lecture, USA
- 2013 The Finnish Science Prize
- 2014 A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine
