Erkki Ruoslahti,
Distinguished Professor and Former President
Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti is Distinguished Professor and former president of Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research and a founder of the Center for Nanomedicine at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Ruoslahti is a pioneer in the field of cell adhesion. His main discovery and invention is the integrin-binding tripeptide motif RGD and integrins that recognize this motif. He now studies specific vascular addresses in directing drugs to sites of disease. Dr. Ruoslahti’s is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Japan Prize and Gairdner Award, and Knight and Commander of the Orders of White Rose of Finland and Lion of Finland.
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