Satu Mustjoki#
| Membership Number: | 6997 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.helsinki.fi/hematology |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0816-8241 |
| Twitter: | @hruh_research |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Director of Translational Immunology Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki (UH), Finland
- 2018 Head of department, Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) Comprehensive Cancer Center, Helsinki Finland.
- 2017 Professor of Translational Hematology (100%), UH, Finland.
- 2015 - 2017 Research professor for the Finnish Cancer Institute
- 2015 - 2017 Deputy professor of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology (35% position), UH, Finland
- 2012 - 2015 Specialist doctor (5% position), HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Helsinki Finland
- 2010 - 2014 Senior Research fellow (Academy of Finland), HUS, Helsinki, Finland
- 2008 - 2010 Academy Clinical Researcher, HUS, Helsinki, Finland,
- 2006 - 2006 Clinical lecturer, Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland (6 months)
- 2002 - 2006 Resident in Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory of Hematology, HUS, Helsinki, Finland
- Career breaks: 2 children born in 2002 and 2004; Clinical specialization 2002 - 2008
Fields of Scholarship
- Natural killer cells
- Translational hematology
- Somatic mutations
- Personalized medicine
- Autoimmune diseases
- Cancer immunology
- Immunological biomarkers discovery
- Translational immunology
- T cells
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - 2025 Nomination for the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLife) Fellow group
- 2020 City of Helsinki Science award
- 2017 - 2020 Nomination for the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLife) Fellow group
- 2019 ERC Proof-of-Concept awardee
- 2018 Biomedicum Helsinki award
- 2015 ERC Consolidator grant awardee
- 2014 Instrumentarium Science foundation fellow award
- 2012 One of the 7 research groups of the P-MOLMED (personalized molecular medicine) consortium which was ranked the number 1 research network in the University of Helsinki evaluation in the category of society impact
- 2010 - 2015 Academy of Finland Senior research fellowship
- 2008 - 2010 Academy of Finland Clinical researcher fellowship
- 2001 PhD thesis (Urokinase, Urokinase Receptor, and ICAMs in Human Leukemia) accepted with distinction
