Jari Koistinaho#
| Membership Number: | 7491 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/biological-modelling-of-human-brain/people |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6559-1153 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jari-koistinaho-26a65765/ |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Koistinaho%20j&sort=date&size=200 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Director, Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki
- 2022 - present Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Helsinki
- 2018 - 2022 Director, Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki
- 2018 - 2022 Professor of Regenerative Medicine, University of Eastern Finland
- 2010 - 2017 Professor of Pharmacology, University of Eastern Finland
- 2004 - 2009 Dean, Director of Graduate School, and Director of Biocenter Kuopio, University of Eastern Finland
- 2002 - 2003 Visiting Professor, Indiana Med. School & Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
- 1997 - 1998 Visiting Research Professor, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, USA
- 1995 - 2010 Research Director/ Professor of Molecular Brain Research, University of Kuopio
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Animal models of brain diseases
- Neuroinflammation
- iPSC-modelling of neurodegenerative diseases and psychotic disorders
- Brain disease drug discovery
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2015 Awarded Stem Cell Professorship by the Saastamoinen Foundation
- 2016 Member, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2024 - present Chair of the Medicine Division, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2007 Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2022 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
- 2024 Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland
