Kari Alitalo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Finnish research professor (Academy of Finland), director of Translational Cancer Biology research program (AlitaloLab, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki) and director of Wihuri Research Institute (Helsinki)
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Place of Birth: Kuopio, Eastern Finland Province, Finland
About Kari Alitalo
- Kari Kustaa Alitalo (born 21 May 1952 in Kuopio) is a Finnish MD and a medical researcher.
- He is a foreign associated member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
- He became famous for his discoveries of several receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and the first growth factor capable of inducing lymphangiogenesis: vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C).
- In the years 1996–2007 he was Europe's second most cited author in the field of cell biology.
- Alitalo is currently serving as an Academy Professor for the Academy of Finland.Alitalo received the Leopold Griffuel Prize in 2002 and the 2006 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.
- He also received the 2005 Eric Fernström Foundation's Nordic Prize and the 2009 In-Bev Baillet Latour Health Prize.
- In 2014, he received the Dr.
- A.H.Heineken Prize for Medicine.
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