Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara#
| Membership Number: | 6297 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/mitochondrial-medicine |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4833-5195 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - 2021 and 2022 - 2026 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland and Uni of Helsinki, Finland (the most distinguished research professorship in Finland - only one clinical/biomedical awarded for 2022 - 2026)
- 1/2007 Professor of Clinical Molecular Medicine (tenured; 100%), University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1/2007 Chief physician, 20%, HUSLab Diagnostic, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
- 2018 Vice Director, Stem Cells and Metabolism research program, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki University 2018
- Associate Editor, EMBO Mol Med 8/2014-; Cell Stress 2018-; Cell Metab 2020-; Trends Mol Med 2020
- 1/2004 - 12/2018 Director, Research Program of Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1/2013 - 5/2017 Member of the Health Research Council, Academy of Finland, Finland
- 8/2014 - 6/2015 Visiting Professor, LiKa Shing Centre; University of California Berkeley, CA, USA,
- 1/2007 - 12/2016 Sigrid Juselius Professor, Clinical Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 8/2002 - 12/2006 Senior research fellow of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 10/1998 - 5/2001 Postdoctoral fellow McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada
- 1993 - 1998 Research scientist National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- 6/1990 - 10/1990 Visiting scientist Columbia University, New York, USA
- 6/1989 - 3/1993 PhD student National Public Health Inst (Prof. L. Peltonen), Helsinki, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Treatment of mitochondrial diseases
- Mitochondrial biology
- Muscle physiology and diseases
- Metabolism
- Cellular stress responses
- Neurodegeneration
- Mitochondrial medicine
- Diagnostic tools for mitochondrial diseases
- Mitochondrial diseases
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Matti Äyräpää prize, Finnish Medical Society Duodecim; for medical excellence
- 2020 Dana Alliance, member.
- 2019 Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Elected member
- 2019 and 2013 Medix Prize, for best biomedical/clinical science publication in Finland 2012 and 2018
- 2018 First honorary member of Finnish Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
- 2018 Banks lectureship, Melbourne; Australia
- 2017 - 2021 and 2022 - present Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 2015 Adam Barsky lectureship, Toronto, Canada.
- 2016 Alumnus of the year, Faculty of Medicine, Uni of Helsinki, Finland
- 2015 Knight, 1stClass, the Order of the White Rose of the Republic of Finland, for science service
- 2013 EMBO, Elected member
- 2012 Biomedicum Helsinki Medal, Helsinki, Finland
- 2011 European Research Council, Advanced Grant
- 2007 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Elected member
- 2004 Europe et Médecin, Junior Award. Institute de Sciences de la Sante, Paris, France
- 2003 Anders Jahre Prize for Young Scientist, Oslo, Norway
- 2002 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2002 - 2019 FinMIT centre of Excellence of the Academy of Finland, three six-year terms
- 2002 Genetics Award, Finnish Society of Medical Genetics, Finland
- 1995 Award of The Outstanding Young Person of the World, Category of Technological and Scientific Development, Junior Chamber International
