Group leader
Molecular and Systems Immunology and Stem Cell Biology
Riitta Lahesmaa, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Director
Biography: Riitta Lahesmaa (b. 1959) received her M.D. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Turku, and was appointed Docent in Immunology in 1990. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University Medical Center with Professor Lawrence Steinman during the years 1990-1993 (NIH Fogarty Fellowship). In 1994 she moved to Syntex Research Institute (later Roche Bioscience) in Palo Alto, California. As a Principal Scientist she focused on lymphocyte signalling and drug discovery with state-of-the-art functional genomics tools. In 1998 she was appointed Director of Turku Centre for Biotechnology. She also directs BioCity Turku Systems Biology Research Program since 2000.
