Biography
Dr. Kovanen has received his M.D. degree (1970) at the University of Basle, Switzerland, and then (1975) his M.D, Ph.D degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He conducted his postdoctoral work (1976 – 1980) at the University of Texas, Health Science Center at Dallas, Department of Medicine and Department of Molecular Genetics (heads: Nobel Laureates Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael S. Brown). His main achievement in Dallas was to unravel the mechanism of statin-induced lowering of plasma LDL-cholesterol level in vivo.
After his return to Finland, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Helsinki. In 1984 he was appointed as Scientific Director of Wihuri Research Institute, Helsinki, and since 1997 he is the Director of the Institute.
Dr. Kovanen was the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Medicine (1995-2008), and serves on the Editorial Board of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. He has served as a Council Member of the Scandinavian Society for Atherosclerosis Research, and is currently a Councillor of the European Vascular Biology Organization, and also President of the newly founded Finnish Atherosclerosis Society. Dr. Kovanen also edits the Cell Biology and Lipoproteins section of Current Opinion in Lipidology.
Most importantly, Dr. Kovanen is a member of EAS since 1995, and member of the Scientific Committee of the European Atherosclerosis Society. As a member of the Organizing Committee and as the Press Officer of the 76th EAS Congress held in Helsinki 2007, he contributed to the success of this annual EAS meeting. Dr. Kovanen has also been teaching vascular biology to students attending the annual EAS Summer School held in Hamburg.
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