Andres Metspalu#
| Membership Number: | 6910 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ESTONIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://genomics.ut.ee |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3718-796X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 to date Professor, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 2012 - 2012 Visiting Faculty, CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2007 - 2018 Director, Estonian Genome Center/Inst. of Genomics, University of Tartu
- 1996 - 2007 Head of Molecular Diagnostics Centre, Tartu University Hospital
- 1999 - 2000 Visiting Senior Scientist Award, WHO IARC, Lyon, France
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx, USA
- 1986 - 1992 Research Director of Research, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu
- 1985 - 1992 Head of Laboratory of Gene Expression, Tartu University
- 1982 - 1984 Senior scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Tartu University
- 1981 - 1982 IREX fellow (postdoc) at Columbia University and Yale University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Microarray technology
- Personalised medicine and prevention
- Medical genomics
- DNA diagnostics
- Human genetics and genomics
- Biobanking
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Estonian Research Council Tiiu Silla lifetime achievement award for systematic science and technology popularization.
- 2020 Prize of the Republic of Estonia for outstanding establishment and leadership of the Estonian Biobank
- 2020 University of Tartu badge "100 semesters at the University of Tartu“
- 2019 Received “Estonian European of the Year” Award.
- 2017 The Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science
- 2016 Tartu University “Large Medal”
- 2015 Honorary citizen of city of Tartu, Estonia
- 2010 Elected Memberof the Estonian Academy of Sciences,
- 2010 Doctor Honoris Causa of Vilnius University
- 2006 President of the European Society of Human Genetics
- 2006 Tartu University “Small Medal”
- 2003 National Science Prize in Medicine
- 2003 Chevalier, L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France
- 2002 Prix de la Garantie Medicale et Chirurgicale, France
- 2001 3rd Class Order of the Estonian Red Cross
- 1999 Elected as a “Man of the Year” by journal “Loop” in Estonia
- 1999 Intern, Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, „The Senior Visiting Scientist Award“ for one year
- 1980 Soviet Estonian Prize for Sciences
