Anu_Wartiovaara
Anu Wartiovaara
Finnish professor of molecular medicine
Anu Wartiovaara (née Suomalainen; born 1966) is a Finnish neuroscience and biomedical researcher, holding the Sigrid Jusélius Professorship of clinical molecular medicine at the University of Helsinki, specialising in mitochondrial disorders.[2]
She has also been appointed as an Academy Professor of the Research Council of Finland since 2017.[2]
In 2007, Wartiovaara was elected as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[3]
In 2013, she was elected as member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO.[4]
In 2021, the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim awarded Wartiovaara the Matti Äyräpää Prize for her work on mitochondrial diseases.[5]
In 2022, she was elected Member of the Academia Europaea.[6]
She gained an MD and PhD from the University of Helsinki, with postdoctoral research at the National Public Health Institute of Finland and McGill University of Canada.[7]
Some of Wartiovaara's publications have appeared under her maiden name Suomalainen, or Suomalainen-Wartiovaara.[2]