Name: Sara Annika Wickström

Nationality: Finnish

contact: SWickstrom@age.mpg.de





education

    2001 M.D., University of Helsinki, Finland

    2001 Licensed to practice by the National Board of Health, Finland

    2004 Ph.D. (Dr. Med. Sci), University of Helsinki, Finland
    Thesis “Endostatin in the regulation of endothelial cell – matrix interactions and pericellular proteolysis”, approved with distinction (top 10%), 2004 thesis award


academic appointments

    2001 - 2004 Research Assistant of Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Finland

    2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral researcher, Professor Jorma Keski-Oja, Department of Pathology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland

    2005 - 2010 Postdoctoral research fellow (Sigrid Juselius Fellowship), Professor Reinhard Fässler, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

    2010 - Paul Gerson Unna Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

awards

    2004 Biomedical Thesis Award (Award for the best biomedical thesis in 2004, awarded by the University of Helsinki, Finland)

    2005 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Research Award

    2005 Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Fellowship

    2005 Academy of Finland Research Award