Professor
at Karolinska Institutet
Janne Lehtiö has MSc degree from Helsinki University, Finland and PhD in engineering at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Post the PhD, Lehtiö worked in USA based biotech industry; and obtained his postdoctoral experience in cancer research at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden. In 2015, he was selected to faculty Professor position at KI and since 2021 holds shared clinical professor position at Karolinska Univ. Hospital heading proteomics unit. Lehtiö-labs major research focus in on proteome analysis, systems biology and cancer precision medicine. He’s lab is working from methods development to clinical applications mainly focusing on lung and breast cancer as well as in leukaemia research. Lehtiö has also vast experience on research infrastructures, from heading core facilities and national infrastructure initiatives to expert assignments in the field of technology driven personalized medicine. Between 2018-2023 Lehtiö serves, as Scientific Director for SciLifeLab, Sweden’s national bioscience infrastructure and is engaged in SciLifeLab-KAW Data Driven Life Science program as steering group member and precision medicine area-lead. He also serves in Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Center board of directors and scientific advisory boards for national infrastructures in both Finland (Biocenter Finland) and Norway (NAPI) as well as Cancer Core Europe. Lehtiö is member of Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet warding Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
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