!!!Andres Metspalu
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 1992 to date   Professor, University of Tartu, Estonia 
* 2012 - 2012      Visiting Faculty, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
* 2007 - 2018    Director, Estonian Genome Center/Inst. of Genomics, University of Tartu
* 1996 - 2007   Head of Molecular Diagnostics Centre, Tartu University Hospital
* 1999 - 2000    Visiting Senior Scientist Award, WHO IARC, Lyon, France
* 1993 - 1994    Visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx, USA
* 1986 - 1992    Research Director of Research, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu
* 1985 - 1992    Head of Laboratory of Gene Expression, Tartu University
* 1982 - 1984    Senior scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Tartu University
* 1981 - 1982    IREX fellow (postdoc) at Columbia University and Yale University, USA
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__Honours and Awards__
*2022  Estonian Research Council Tiiu Silla lifetime achievement award for systematic science and technology popularization.
*2020 Prize of the Republic of Estonia for outstanding establishment and leadership of the Estonian Biobank
*2020 University of Tartu badge "100 semesters at the University of Tartu“
*2019 Received “Estonian European of the Year” Award.
*2017 The Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science
*2016 Tartu University “Large Medal”
*2015 Honorary citizen of city of Tartu, Estonia
*2010 Elected Memberof the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 
*2010 Doctor Honoris Causa of Vilnius University
*2006 President of the European Society of Human Genetics
*2006 Tartu University “Small Medal”
*2003 National Science Prize in Medicine
*2003 Chevalier, L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France
*2002 Prix de la Garantie Medicale et Chirurgicale, France
*2001 3rd Class Order of the Estonian Red Cross
*1999 Elected as a “Man of the Year” by journal “Loop” in Estonia
*1999 Intern, Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, „The Senior Visiting Scientist Award“ for one year
*1980 Soviet Estonian Prize for Sciences
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Metspalu_Andres/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Metspalu_Andres/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Metspalu_Andres/Highlight]
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[Other information|User/Metspalu_Andres/OtherInformation]
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