Prof. Kari Syrjanen
Director
Biohit HealthCare Oyj
Finland
Biography
Prof. Kari Syrjänen is the Chief Medical Director and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of BIOHIT Oyj (Helsinki, Finland). Before appointment to Biohit, he served 35 years in different academic positions, e.g. as Professor of Pathology, and Dean of the Medical Faculty (University of Eastern Finland). He is one of the pioneers in HPV research, with 890 published original papers, reviews and book chapters as well as 526 other scientific communications. He has coordinated 3 European Commission (EC)-funded international multi-center studies (a Nobel laureate among partners), supervised 25 doctoral thesis (domestic and abroad), and published 9 international textbooks. His research has received over 24.500 citations in the literature, with current Hirsch Index (HI) of 78 (i10 index 490). He has participated as an invited speaker in over 275 international congresses, and as organizing committee member in over 40 of those since 1981 (with 400-500 oral presentations). In 2013, KS was appointed as Editor-in-Chief, Acta Cytologica (Karger). Prof. Syrjänen is a Honorary Member of the American- (ASCPC), Italian- (ISCPC) and Hungarian (HSCPC) Society of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy. In 2006, he received EUROGIN Distinguished Service Award, and in 2010, the Maurice Goldblatt Award (from IAC). He is the first recipient of the IPVS Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Papillomavirus Society (2015).
Research Interest
pathology,cancer biology,Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders