Elina Ikonen - Curriculum Vitae#
CURRENT POSITIONS OF TRUST:
Scientific Advisory Board member, Elixir ESFRI, 2014-; Helsinki Institute of Life Science Board member, 2016-; Supervisory Board, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Board member 2017-; Euro-BioImaging ERIC, Board vice member, 2019-; Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Medical Board member, 2020-; EMBO Course Committee member, 2020-; Biocenter Finland Board member 2022-
RESEARCH SUPERVISION:
Supervisor of 13 completed PhD theses, 3 with distinction; supervision of 15 previous postdocs; currently supervising 5 postdoctoral fellows, 5 PhD students
PATENT APPLICATIONS:
Orphazyme ApS PA201670223; Aalto University FI20175982; Univ. of Helsinki FI20195239; PCT/FI2020/050196; FI20206284; Johns Hopkins University 16/335,737; 62/398,634; PCT/US2017/052863
ORGANIZER OF CONFERENCES:
EMBO Practical Course on Protein-lipid interactions, Helsinki, 2017; Internatl. Conference on the Biosciences of Lipids, co-organizer, Helsinki, 2018; EMBO Workshop Lipid Function in Health and Disease, co-organizer, Dresden, 2019; European Atherosclerosis Society, co-organizer, Helsinki, 2021
INVITED SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES:
Gordon Conferences Italy 2017; USA 2017; USA 2020. EMBO workshops Italy 2018; France 2019. FASEB Conferences USA, 2018. ASCB/EMBO meeting, plenary, USA 2019; European Atherosclerosis Society, Switzerland 2020; FEBS Congress, Slovenia 2021; EBSA Congress, Austria 2021; Deuel Conference, USA 2022; ASBMB Annual Meeting, USA 2022; EMBO Conference, China 2022
REVIEWING:
Opponent of 16 PhD theses; Pre-examiner of 9 PhD theses; Reviewer of 9 Docentships, 6 Professorships. Reviewer for grants: NIH, NSF, Wellcome Trust, Telethon, Swiss, Israeli, Austrian, Swedish, Dutch, Belgian, Croatian, Portuguese, French national science foundations. Reviewer for research excellence grants: Research Foundation Flanders 2008-2013, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2009, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2010; European Science Foundation pool of referees 2010-; ERC Advanced Grant panel member 2015, 2017; Göran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine 2018, 2019, Research Foundation Flanders Odysseus Program 2021
