Terho Lehtimäki#
| Membership Number: | 6282 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.tuni.fi/clinical-chemistry/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2555-4427 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Professor and Head of Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University (formerly UTA)
- 2006 - present Chief Physician, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories Ltd., Pirkanmaa Hospital District
- 2002 - 2006 Associate Chief Physician, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital
- 1999 - 2002 Consultant/specialized physician, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital
- 1996 Head of Laboratory of Atherosclerosis Genetics, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Tampere. University Hospital and University of Tampere.
- 1995 - 1999 Specializing physician, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Tampere University Hospital
- 1993 - 1995 Post-doctoral Investigator of Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Tampere (UTA)
- 1988 - 1992 Research assistant, junior researcher, PhD/MD student, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Tampere
Fields of Scholarship
- Atherosclerosis related disease biomarkers discovery, risk prediction and clinical testing
- Running of several clinical and autopsy cohort studies (TVS, TSDS, YFS-3G, FINCAVAS)
- Metabolomics, lipidomics, microbiomics, olfactomics analyses
- System biology based molecular characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and above cohorts.
- Participation in ca. 40 different ongoing international consortiums and EU funded projects
- Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits; noncoding RNAs and methylomics
- Genetics (GWAS, NGS, single-cell-RNAseq, transcriptomics) of complex traits and diseases
- Clinical chemistry, biochemistry and laboratory medicine
- System biology - omics, statistical tool coding and development
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Member of Academia Europae
- 2017 Member of The Science Advisory Board (www.scienceboard.net)
- 2014 University of Tampere, silver badge for 20-year work career in UTA
- 2014 Member of the board of Finnish Laboratory Medicine Foundation
- 2014 Member of the board of Koululab Ltd.
- 2014 Member of executive committee of European Eye Consortium
- 2013 University of Tampere, Science Prize
- 2011 Member of executive group of Finnish Medical Laboratories Ltd
- 2010 Member of Astrup-prize committee (Clinical Chemistry Prize every 2nd year)
- 2009 - 2020 Member of Scientific Committee of Pirkanmaa Hospital District
- 2006 Member of Scientific Committee of UTA, Faculty of Med. and Life Sciences
- 1989 Award for the best advanced studies, Tampere Medical Faculty, UTA
- 1988 Award from the International Atherosclerosis Society
- 1995 Award from Tampere Medical Association for excellent poster presentation
- 1993 Award from Tampere Medical Association for excellent poster presentation
- 1992 Award from Tampere Medical Association for excellent poster presentation
