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Erkki Ruoslahti

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American medical researcher

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Erkki Ruoslahti
Law
#347
World Rank
#494
Historical Rank
#216
USA Rank
Common Law
#2
World Rank
#2
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#2
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Erkki Ruoslahti
Biology
#530
World Rank
#929
Historical Rank
#305
USA Rank
Cell Biology
#11
World Rank
#11
Historical Rank
#7
USA Rank
biology Degrees
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According to Wikipedia, Erkki Ruoslahti is a cancer researcher and distinguished professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. He moved from Finland to the United States in 1976. Ruoslahti made seminal contributions to biology of extracellular matrix and its receptors. He was one of the discoverers of fibronectin, an adhesion molecule and component of extracellular matrices, and he subsequently identified and cloned a number of other extracellular matrix components and adhesion molecules. In 1984, he identified the sequence within fibronectin that mediates cell attachment, called RGD for the amino acids of which it’s composed, and isolated the cellular receptors that bind that sequence, now known as integrins. The RGD discovery has led to the development of drugs for vascular thrombosis and cancer, among other diseases.

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Erkki Ruoslahti's Published Works

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