Dr. Olli Kallioniemi is a leading cancer researcher and geneticist. He has served as the Head of Translational Genomics Section at the Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. In November 2002, he accepted a position as Professor of Medical Biotechnology at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland with a joint appointment at the University of Turku. He is an author of 202 publications and 12 issued patents. He was the recipient of the EACR young investigator award in 1994, Anders Jahre Prize in 1998, NIH Director’s lecture in 2000, Medal of the Swedish Medical Society in 2003.
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