!!Tõnis Timmusk - Biography
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Tõnis Timmusk (TT) is a molecular neurobiologist with more than 30-years research interests in gene regulation and signaling in the nervous system. After obtaining PhD in medical sciences from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in 1994, he continued his scientific career in Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden and University of Helsinki in Finland. Since 2002 he is full professor of molecular biology in Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. TT has co-authored more than 100 publications, including in top journals Nature, Science, Nature Genetics, Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, eLife, Glia and others. Publications co-authored by him have ben cited more than 16 000 times and his  H-index is 52 (Google Scholar). His published work has contributed to the understanding of the function, signaling and gene regulation of neurotrophic factors and their receptors and to activity-dependent transcriptional mechanisms that underlie nervous system function in health and disease. TT has also published studies of several nervous system diseases, including Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, schizophrenia and cognitive disorders, like Pitt-Hopkins syndrome. TT has been the principal investigator of many projects, including the highly prestigous Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship, and the inventor of several international patent and patent application families. He is the scientific co-founder of five biotech companies.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit ttimmusk}][{ALLOW upload ttimmusk}][{ALLOW comment All}]