Dr. Tero Järvinen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor & Chief Surgeon
Email: tero.jarvinen(at)tuni.fi
Dr. Tero Järvinen is the professor and the Chief surgeon at the Tampere University and the Tampere University Hospital, Finland. Prof. Järvinen graduated from the medical school in 1997 and received his Ph.D. thesis in cancer genetics at the Tampere University in 1999. He completed his clinical training in orthopedics and traumatology in 2009. He did his post-doc with the world-renowned cell biologist, distinguished professor Erkki Ruoslahti at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute at La Jolla, CA, USA in 2003 – 2006 and later worked as a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2008-2010. He has published almost 150 peer-reviewed papers, among them articles in journals such as Nat Comms, PNAS, Mol Ther and the NEJM. His research has been cited for almost 17 000 (H-index 56) and he holds 11 patents. His research interest are tissue regeneration and multi-functional therapeutics to enhance tissue repair.