Anna-Leena Sirén

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Anna-Leena Kaarina Sirén (* 1955 in Oulu , Finland ) is a Finnish neuroscientist .

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Anna-Leena Siren studied medicine at the University of Oulu , where she in 1982 with a thesis on the effects of arachidonic acid in rats doctorate was.

From 1984 she headed the neurological research department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda , Maryland as "Research Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience". From 1995 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Göttingen. There habilitated it in 1999 for experimental neuroscience. In 2003 she became an adjunct professor .

Since November 2004 the professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . She heads the Experimental Neurosurgery Section at the University Hospital of Würzburg .

She mainly works in the field of stem cell research . In 2010, together with Albrecht Müller, she received approval for a “comparative study of neurogenesis from human parthenogenetically generated pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells” according to Section 11 of the Stem Cell Act .

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  • Central cardiovascular and thermal effects of arachidonic acid and some of its metabolites in rats. Dissertation. University of Oulu 1982, ISBN 951-42-1355-6 ( Acta Universitatis Ouluensis. Seria D: Medica ).
  • Expression of proinflammatory and vasoactive mediators in the injured brain. Habilitation thesis. University of Göttingen 1999.
  • with Hannelore Ehrenreich : EPO. Neuroprotection in brain diseases. In: Georgia Augusta. Volume 2. University of Göttingen, 2003, ISSN  0016-8157 , pp. 111-115. ( online , PDF; 225 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Neurosurgical Clinic and Polyclinic on the website of the University Hospital Würzburg
  2. Human embryonic stem cells in comparison ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on presse.uni-wuerzburg.de
  3. Register according to § 11 Stem Cell Act (StZG) on rki.de