Erkki Ruoslahti

Erkki Ruoslahti (born February 16, 1940 in Puumala , Finland ) is a Finnish - American cell biologist and cancer researcher at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the University of California, Santa Barbara .

Life

Ruoslahti earned a bachelor's degree in medicine from Helsinki University in 1961 , an MD in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1967. in immunology . As a postdoctoral fellow , he went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 1970 he received a professorship for serology and bacteriology at the University of Helsinki and in 1975 for the same subject combination at the University of Turku . In 1976 Ruoslahti went to the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte , California as a Senior Research Scientist and later head of the Department of Immunology . In 1979 he moved to the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla , California, where he held various senior positions, including President and CEO from 1989 to 2001 . Since 1980 Ruoslahti has also been a professor at the University of California, San Diego, first in the pathology department , and finally in the bioengineering department . Currently (as of 2016) he is an Adjunct Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara .

Act

Ruoslahti is considered a leader in the field of cell adhesion molecules . He discovered that the cell-binding domain of several important proteins of the extracellular matrix consists of the simple RGD sequence . Ruoslahti could show that the endothelial cells of various organs unique receptors expressing that allow a targeting allow normal organs or of certain tumors.

Thomson Reuters has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine since 2012 .

Awards (selection)

• 1989 Member of the Finnish Science Society ( Suomen Tiedeseura , Societas Scientiarum Fennica )
• 1990 Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award
• 1993 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1994 Knight of the Finnish Order of the White Rose
• 1997 Gairdner Foundation International Award
• 1999 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2005 Japan Prize
• 2009 Honorary Academician of Science ( Tieteen akateemikko )

literature

• Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN  0083-9396 , pp. 3850-3851.

Web links

• Erkki Ruoslahti, MD, Ph.D. at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (sandfordburnham.org); Retrieved February 12, 2012.
• Ruoslahti Research Laboratory and curriculum vitae (PDF, 158 kB) at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the University of California, Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu); Retrieved February 12, 2012.
• Erkki Ruoslahti at the University of California, Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu); accessed on February 13, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sanford-Burnham's Erkki Ruoslahti named to Thomson Reuters' Nobel Prize watch list. In: eurekalert.org. September 20, 2012, Retrieved February 13, 2016 (Arabic). 
2. ^ Hall of Citation Laureates , at Thomson Reuters.
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 159 kB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved February 12, 2012.
4. ↑ Erkki Ruoslahti, MD, Ph.D. at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 14, 2012.
5. ↑ Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti at the Japan Prize Foundation (japanprize.jp); Retrieved February 12, 2012.
6. ↑ Foreign Academicians of Science - Academy of Finland. In: aka.fi. October 7, 2015, accessed February 13, 2016 .