Alitalo, Annamari

Research Interests

• Biomolecular target therapies in vivo
• Pathophysiology of human disease models

Education & Positions held

2008 - present
PhD student at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, supervisor Prof. Michael Detmar

2008
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, University of Helsinki, Finland
Master of Science degree, University of Helsinki, Finland

2000-2008
M.Sc. Thesis Work at A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland (supervisor Prof. Seppo Ylä-Herttuala)

Undergraduate M.Sc. studies and DVM Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland; Veterinary Department, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Large Animal Clinics, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada

Publications

Alitalo A, Detmar M. Interaction of tumor cells and lymphatic vessels in cancer progression. Oncogene. 2011 Dec 19. epub

Cueni L, Chen L, Zhang H, Marino D, Huggenberger R, Alitalo A, Bianchi R, Detmar M. (2010) Podoplanin-Fc reduces lymphatic vessel formation in vitro and in vivo and causes disseminated intravascular coagulation when transgenically expressed in the skin, Blood, 116: 4376-4384.