Pekka Sillanaukee (born 1964,

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

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) is a Finnish

health technology Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

entrepreneur. Pekka graduated as an organic chemist in 1989, he became a Ph.D. in 1992 and was appointed Docent of Medical Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of the

University of Tampere The University of Tampere (UTA) ( fi, Tampereen yliopisto (Tay), ) was a public university in Tampere, Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered un ...

in 1993. Pekka has been a co-author of approximately 120 scientific original articles, reviews or summaries. His scientific work has focused on clinical and medical biochemistry, alcohol, brain and cardiovascular related diseases, and development of laboratory-diagnostic tests and processes. He also has four international patents. Pekka has worked as a researcher at the Medical School of the University of Tampere and at Tampere University Hospital, as a responsible clinical researcher at Alko's research laboratories from 1987 to 1993, then as a director and business unit member at Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. (

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) 1994–1999, CEO at FIT Biotech Plc 1999–2004, and thereafter as an entrepreneur, co-founder or co-owner of different Finnish, Swedish and Estonian health technology and service companies including Bioretec Ltd, ESO International Ltd, Innokas Medical Ltd, Nordic Senior Services Ltd, Nova Vita Ltd, OS-Service, Ovumia Ltd, Palvelutähti Ltd, Paavolankoti Ltd, and Quattromed Ltd. Since 2014 Sillanaukee has focused on the development of

fertility treatment Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes medical procedures used primarily to address infertility. This subject involves procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), cryopreservation of gametes ...

technologies and practices in Ovumia Fertility Clinic.

Education

M.Sc.,

University of Jyväskylä The University of Jyväskylä ( fi, Jyväskylän yliopisto) is a research university in Jyväskylä, Finland. It has its origins in the first Finnish-speaking Teacher Training College (the so-called Teacher Seminary), founded in 1863. Ar ...

, Natural Science Faculty, Dep. of Chemistry and Dep. of Cell Biology, 1989. Ph.D.,

, Medical Faculty, Dep. of Biomedical Science, 1992. Assistant Professorship (docent) of Medical Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Tampere, Tampere, 1993. Qualification for Assistant Professorship (docent) in

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...

, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998. Business & Executive management studies in

Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration The Aalto University School of Business ( fi, Aalto-yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu; sv, Aalto-universitets handelshögskola), is the largest business school in Finland. Founded in 1911, it is the second oldest business school in Finland and one of ...

1993–1994, Stockholm School of Economics and Business Administration 1995–1998,

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is " ...

1998–1999,

Aalto University Aalto University ( fi, Aalto-yliopisto; sv, Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the He ...

2011.

Patents

1) Use of sialic acid determination for determining alcohol consumption 2) An improved method for diagnosing alcohol abuse 3) Immunoassay and Kit for IgA Antibodies Specific for Acetaldehyde Adducts 4) Immunochemical methods

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sillanaukee, Pekka 1964 births Living people Finnish biochemists University of Jyväskylä alumni University of Tampere alumni