11:00-12:00, Säätiö-Sali, Medisiina D
InFLAMES Guest Seminar: “Why and how does citrullination occur in rheumatoid arthritis?”
Professor Tomas Mustelin
Division Head for Rheumatology, the University of Washington

Professor Tomas Mustelin, the Division Head for Rheumatology at the University of Washington, will visit Turku in the week 17. During his visit he will give three seminars, all open to everybody.

He will also be available for meetings in the afternoons of his seminar days, so please reserve a meeting with him using the reservation calendar on the InFLAMES website: https://inflames.utu.fi/contact-us__trashed/reservation-calendars/.

His other seminars:

Seminar 2: “The neoantigen hypothesis of autoimmunity.”

Tuesday, April 23, Säätiö-Sali, Medisiina D, 12:00–13:00

Seminar 3: “Lupus pathogenesis: crossing the LINE1?”

Thursday, April 25, Säätiö-Sali, Medisiina D, 11:00–12:00

About Professor Mustelin:

Tomas Mustelin, MD, PhD, professor, is the Division Head for Rheumatology at University of Washington. He has had a stellar career both in academia and industry. After MD, PhD at University of Helsinki he pursued his post-doc at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California and continued as PI in the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and The Burnham Institute for Medical Research for another 15 years. He then shifted gears, taking a “brief sabbatical” in Amgen and MedImmune and Gilead. During his over 10 years of industry experience, he led the discovery of several FDA-approved drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory/respiratory diseases and immune-oncology.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-mustelin-8527a06/