!!Leena Peltonen - Curriculum vitae
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__EDUCATION__
*M.D., University of Oulu 							1976
*Ph.D., University of Oulu 						1978
*Docent in Cell Biology, University of Oulu					1982
*Docent in Molecular Genetics, University of Helsinki				1991

__PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE__
*M.D., Ph.D. Student, Collagen Research Unit , University of Oulu, Finland 				1973 – 1976
*Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry ,Rutgers Medical School, NJ, USA 			1978 – 1980
*Acting Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Oulu, Finland 		1981 – 1984
*Senior Scientist of The Academy of Finland, Recombinant DNA Laboratory, University of Helsinki 	1985 – 1986
*Head of the Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Finland 	1987 – 1991
*Professor of Molecular Biology, Director of the Molecular Biology Program, National Public Health Institute 									1991 – 1994
*Professor, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute 				1995 – 1998 
*Chairman and Professor of Department of Human Genetics, UCLA 				1998 – 2002
*Professor of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland 							2002 – 2003
*Academy Professor, the Academy of Finland 							2003 –

__SEVERAL POSITIONS HELD IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES INCLUDE:__
*Chairman of the Finnish Connective Tissue Society 						1984 – 1985
*Chairman, Finnish Society of Medical Genetics 							1990 – 1992
*European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Member 					1991 
*Human Genome Organization, Member of the International Council 				1991 – 1998
*European Society of Human Genetics, Member of the Council 					1992 – 2000
*National Academy of Sciences, Finland, Member 						1993 –
*Hereditary Disease Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board Member 				1999 – 2002
*European Academy of Sciences (Academiae Europeae), Member 					1999 –
*American Society of Human Genetics, Member, Board of Directors 				2001 – 2004 
*European Society of Human Genetics, President 							2004 – 2005
*Societas Scienterum Fennica, Member 								2002 –
*Chair, Populations and Public Health Strategy Committee, Wellcome Trust 				2004
*HUGO – President 									2005 -
*Member, Scientific Advisory Board of European Research Council					2005 -

__OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:__
*Chairman of the Medical Research Council of Finland (Academy of Finland) 			1995 – 1997
*EURESCO Scientific Steering Committee, Member 						1996 – 1998
*Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 
*Stockholm, Sweden, Member 									1996 –
*Chairman of the European Medical Research Council 						1996 – 1998
*Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland, Member 					1996 – 1998
*CSC of Finland (Center of Scientic Computing), Member of the Board 				1995 – 1998
*International Bioethics Committee, UNESCO, Member 						1998 – 2003
*Scientific Advisory Board of the Genome Research Programme, Foundation for Strategic Research, Sweden, Member 								1999 –
*Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Member 		2000 – 2002
*International Advisory Board, SWEGENE, Sweden, Member 					2000 – 2004
*Scientific Advisory Board, Marshfield Medical Research and 
*Education Foundation’s Medicine Program, Member 						2001 – 2002
*Scientific Advisory Board of UK Biobanks, Member 						2001 –
*Chair, International Jury of the Netherlands Genome Initiative 					2001 – 2003
*Member, Board of Genetics Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation 					2001 –
*Scientific Advisory Board of the Shanghai Genome Center, Member 				2002 –
*Scientific Advisory Board, Genome Canada, Member  						2002 – 2003
*Board of Publicly Funded Population Projects in Genomics (P3G)					2004 –

__EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:__
*Member of the Editorial Board:	Psychiatric Genetics						1989 –
*Molecular and Cellular Probes					1990 – 2002
*	European Journal of Human Genetics				1991 – 2004
*	Human Mutation						1991 – 2004
*	American Journal of Medical Genetics				1992 –
*	Biological Chemistry						1994 – 2000
*	Human Molecular Genetics					1994 – 2004
*	Genome Research						1995 – 1999
*	Gene Function & Disease					2000 –
*	Molecular Genetics and Metabolism				2000 –
*	Current Opinion in Genetics & Development  			2000 –
*Editor-in-Chief:			    Annals of Medicine						1990 – 1994

__PRIZES AND AWARDS:__
*The Antoine Marfan Award (The National Marfan Foundation, USA) 				1992
*The Anders Jahre Prize for young scientist, Poul Astrup Prize 					1992
*Matti Äyräpää Prize 									1993
*Woman of the Year (Finland) 									1994
*Lennox K. Black Prize (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) 					1996
*Mauro Bachirotto Prize (European Society of Human Genetics) 					1997
*Gordon & Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics-UCLA 			1999
*Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Millennium Promotion 		2000
*Ribicoff Lecturer, Yale University, Naomi M. Kanof Clinical Investigator Award Lectureship, 
*The Society for Investigative Dermatology, USA					2001
*Abbott Award of Molecular diagnostics, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 									2002
*The Margaret Pittman Lectureship Award, National Institute of Health, USA			2004
*	Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Joensuu, Finland		                2004
	
__ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION:__
*407 original publications and 61 review articles in international scientific journals and books. 	
*Supervised 61 Ph.D. theses
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!Obituaries
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*Read obituaries in [Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute|https:///www.sanger.ac.uk/about/press/2010/110310.html], [Broad Institute|http://www.broadinstitute.org/communications/memoriam-leena-peltonen-palotie]
*In memoriam note in [UCLA|http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/leena/leena.html]
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