Director Clinical Genomics
SciLifeLab / Karolinska institutet, Sweden
Valtteri Wirta is Platform Scientific Director at Clinical Genomics Stockholm (Science for Life Laboratory) and the head of the Genomic Medicine Center Karolinska at Karolinska University Hospital. His team is facilitating the transition of genomics technologies, especially massively parallel DNA sequencing, into diagnostic use in several disease areas. Valtteri has 20 years of experience in working with genomics-based technologies and managing interdisciplinary teams both in biotech industry, academia and healthcare. Valtteri is co-chairing the working group for informatics in the Genomic Medicine Sweden initiative, the task force leader for genomics in Cancer Core Europe, and vice-chair for the Nordic Alliance of Clinical Genomics.
