Distinguished Professor Emeritus Archives - Sanford Burnham Prebys

Erkki Ruoslahti earned his MD and PhD from the University of Helsinki in Finland in 1967. After postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, he held various academic appointments with the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku in Finland and City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. He joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 1979 and served as its President from 1989-2002. He was a Distinguished Professor at University of California Santa Barbara in Biological Sciences 2005-2015. His honors include elected membership to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Japan Prize, Gairdner Foundation International Award, G.H.A. Clowes Award, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award, and Jacobaeus International Prize. He was a Nobel Fellow at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1995, and is an Honorary Doctor of Medicine from the University of Lund, as well as a Knight and Commander of the Orders of the White Rose the the Lion of Finland. In 2022, Dr. Ruoslahti was announced as one of three winners of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

Education

1966: MD, University of Helsinki in Finland
1967: PhD, University of Helsinki in Finland

Awards and Honors

2022: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland
Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
2012: Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
2005: Japan Prize in Cell Biology
2003: Jubilee Lecturer, Biochemical Society
1998: Jacobaeus International Prize
1997: Gairdner Foundation International Award
1995: Nobel Fellow at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm
1991: Honorary doctorate in medicine from Lund University, Sweden
1990: American Association for Cancer Research – G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award

Member

National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Medicine
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
European Molecular Biology Organization

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