Kari Alitalo

Short description: Finnish MD and a medical researcher

Kari K. Alitalo in 2014. (Jussi Puikkonen / KNAW)

Kari Kustaa Alitalo (born 21 May 1952 in Kuopio[1]) is a Finnish MD and a medical researcher. He is a foreign associated member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US.[2] He became famous for his discoveries of several receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs)[3][4][5] and the first growth factor capable of inducing lymphangiogenesis: vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C).[6] In the years 1996-2007 he was Europe's second most cited author in the field of cell biology.[7] Alitalo is currently serving as an Academy Professor for the Academy of Finland.[8]

Alitalo received the Leopold Griffuel Prize in 2002[9] and the 2006 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.[10] He also received the 2005 Eric Fernström Foundation's Nordic Prize[11] and the 2009 In-Bev Baillet Latour Health Prize.[12] In 2014, he received the Dr. A.H.Heineken Prize for Medicine.

## References

1. ↑ Pajala, Lasse (2010) (in fi). Kuka kukin on 2011. Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-24712-8.
2. ↑ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected News, April 30th, 2013, National Academy of Sciences. Accessed June 3, 2013
3. ↑ Partanen, J; Mäkelä, TP; Eerola, E; Korhonen, J; Hirvonen, H; Claesson-Welsh, L; Alitalo, K (1991). "FGFR-4, a novel acidic fibroblast growth factor receptor with a distinct expression pattern". The EMBO Journal 10 (6): 1347–54. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb07654.x. PMID 1709094.
4. ↑ Aprelikova, O; Pajusola, K; Partanen, J; Armstrong, E et al. (1992). "FLT4, a novel class III receptor tyrosine kinase in chromosome 5q33-qter". Cancer Research 52 (3): 746–8. PMID 1310071.
5. ↑ Partanen, J; Armstrong, E; Mäkelä, TP; Korhonen, J; Sandberg, M; Renkonen, R; Knuutila, S; Huebner, K et al. (1992). "A novel endothelial cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase with extracellular epidermal growth factor homology domains". Molecular and Cellular Biology 12 (4): 1698–707. doi:10.1128/mcb.12.4.1698. PMID 1312667.
6. ↑ Joukov, V; Pajusola, K; Kaipainen, A; Chilov, D; Lahtinen, I; Kukk, E; Saksela, O; Kalkkinen, N et al. (1996). "A novel vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF-C, is a ligand for the Flt4 (VEGFR-3) and KDR (VEGFR-2) receptor tyrosine kinases". The EMBO Journal 15 (2): 290–98. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00359.x. PMID 8617204.
7. ↑ "Publication Analysis 1996-2007. Cell Biology." Lab Times. 2007. Number 5, pages 42-44
8. ↑ "Akatemiaprofessorit". Academy of Finland. 27 May 2015. http://www.aka.fi/fi/akatemia/tutkimuksen-tekijoita/akatemiaprofessorit.
9. ↑ Leopold Griffuel Prize. Wikipedia. Accessed June 3rd, 2013
10. ↑ "Louis-Jeantet Prize". https://www.jeantet.ch/en/prix-louis-jeantet/laureats/2006-en/professeur-kari-alitalo/.
11. ↑ Kari Alitalo received recognition for his work, University of Helsinki 2005 annual report. Accessed August 21, 2011
12. ↑ FINISH PROFESSORS KARI ALITALO AND SEPPO YLÄ-HERTTUALA ARE RECIPIENTS OF THE INBEV-BAILLET LATOUR HEALTH PRIZE 2009 FOR THEIR PIONEERING RESEARCH ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS. Press-release, April 2009, In-Bev Baillet Latour Foundation. Accessed August 21, 2011

## External links

* Personal webpage, University of Helsinki

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Heineken Prizes

Biochemistry and Biophysics|

* Chargaff (1964)
* Brachet (1967)
* Chance (1970)
* De Duve (1973)
* Van Deenen (1976)
* Klug (1979)
* Weissmann (1982)
* Julesz & Reichardt (1985)
* Cech (1988)
* Leder (1990)
* Borst (1992)
* Berridge (1994)
* Nurse (1996)
* Pawson (1998)
* Rothman (2000)
* Tsien (2002)
* Fire (2004)
* Jeffreys (2006)
* Szostak (2008)
* Hartl (2010)
* De Lange (2012)
* Dobson (2014)
* Doudna (2016)
* Xiaowei Zhuang (2018)

Medicine|

* Lauterbur (1989)
* Van Rood (1990)
* Moncada (1992)
* Montagnier (1994)
* De Wied (1996)
* Marshall (1998)
* Kandel (2000)
* Selkoe (2002)
* Blackburn (2004)
* King (2006)
* Peto (2008)
* Steinman (2010)
* Clevers (2012)
* Alitalo (2014)
* Jackson (2016)
* Peter Carmeliet (2018)

Environmental Sciences|

* Lovelock (1990)
* Branica (1992)
* BirdLife International (1994)
* Daly (1996)
* Ehrlich (1998)
* Harremoës (2000)
* Thompson (2002)
* Levin (2004)
* Pimm (2006)
* Brunekreef (2008)
* Tilman (2010)
* Laurance (2012)
* Damsté (2014)
* Mace (2016)
* Paul D. N. Hebert (2018)

History|

* Gay (1990)
* Van der Wee (1992)
* Brown (1994)
* Oberman (1996)
* Ozouf (1998)
* De Vries (2000)
* Schilling (2002)
* Le Goff (2004)
* Mokyr (2006)
* Israel (2008)
* McKitterick (2010)
* Parker (2012)
* Assmann (2014)
* Herrin (2016)
* J. R. McNeill (2018)

Cognitive Science|

* Anderson (2006)
* Dehaene (2008)
* Tomasello (2010)
* Duncan (2012)
* McClelland (2014)
* Spelke (2016)
* Nancy Kanwisher (2018)

Art|

* Verhoef (1988)
* Bot (1990)
* C. Visser (1992)
* Röling (1994)
* Martens (1996)
* Van de Pavert (1998)
* Geelen (2000)
* Mik (2002)
* Van Golden (2004)
* Koelewijn (2006)
* B. Visser (2008)
* Manders (2010)
* Struycken (2012)
* Van Oldenborgh (2014)
* Dröge Wendel (2016)
* Erik van Lieshout (2018)

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