Olli Silvennoinen#
| Membership Number: | 6535 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0747-9512 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 to date Director, Biocenter Finland
- 2019 - 2022 Director, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences HiLIFE
- 2018 - 2019 Director, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
- 2017 Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tampere University
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting professor, Yale University
- 2010 - 2016 Professor, Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Tampere
- 2001 - 2010 Director of Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere
- 1996 - 1999 Professor, Molecular Immunology, Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere
- 1995 Senior Fellow, Academy of Finland, Department of Virology, University of Helsinki
- 1990 - 1994 Postdoc, St Jude Children´s Research Hospital, New York University Medical School
Fields of Scholarship
- Hematological malignancies
- Protein kinases
- Cytokine signalling
- Transcription
- Molecular immunology
- Pseudokinases
- Inflammatory diseases
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Elected member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2005 Knight, 1, Class, White Rose of Finland
