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Photo Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D.,Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Burnham Institute for Medical Research (at UCSB)


Erkki Ruoslahti earned his M.D. and Ph.D. 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 The Burnham Institute in 1979 and served as its President from 1989-2002. He has been a Distinguished Professor at UCSB in Biological Sciences since 2005. His honors include: elected membership to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. He is the recipient of the G.H.A. Clowes Award, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award, Jacobaeus International Prize, The Jubilee Award given by the British Biomedical Society. 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 of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Dr. Ruoslahti is the recipient of the 2005 Japan Prize in Cell Biology.

Contact Information

Phone: (805) 893-5327
Fax: (805) 893-5805
E-Mail: ruoslahti@burnham.org
Office: LSB, Room 1107

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Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106



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