Research Director Eino Solje, MD, PhD, from the University of Eastern Finland has been invited to the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Organised in Germany every year, the meeting provides a platform for interaction between Nobel Laureates, talented young researchers and different disciplines.
The 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be held on 28 June–3 July 2020. A record number of Nobel Laureates, nearly 70, as well as 660 carefully selected young researchers from 101 countries will attend the meeting. The meeting will also witness the release of guidelines for globally sustainable open science. Solje was nominated by the Council of Finnish Academies.
“I’m especially looking forward to meeting Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. Networking with both experienced and younger researchers is important,” Solje says.
Despite his young age of 29, Eino Solje is an esteemed researcher of frontotemporal dementia. He defended his doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of Professor Anne Remes, already before graduating as a physician. His doctoral dissertation focused on the C9orf72 repeat expansion mutation from the viewpoints of clinical phenotype of the mutation associated frontotemporal dementia. The mutation in question is the most common hereditary cause of frontotemporal dementia.
In recent years, Solje has worked as a specialising physician in neurology at Kuopio University Hospital and North Karelia Central Hospital. He is also the co-leader of the Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Early Onset Dementia research group at UEF, together with Professor Remes. Next summer, he will start a fellowship in Brescia, Italy, which is known as one of Europe’s leading hubs for research addressing memory disorders that affect the working-age population.
Solje has published a considerable number of articles in high-level journals and he supervises several doctoral students. Currently, his research focuses on early features of frontotemporal dementia, as well as on its diagnostics, biomarkers, immunological mechanisms, imaging and genetic ethics. Frontotemporal extrapyramidal diseases constitute a new opening in his research.
Alongside his clinical and research work, Solje was responsible for the national-level audit of specialist training in neurology in 2018–2019.
For further information, please contact:
Eino Solje, eino.solje (a) uef.fi, tel +358408425553
Print-quality photo of Eino Solje: https://kuvapankki.uef.fi/A/UEF+kuvahakemisto/12787?encoding=UTF-8
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, press release 2 March 2020: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PR_Selection_Young_Scientists.pdf
