Seppo Juhani Vainio

PhD Professor, Developmental Biology Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Oulu University, Finland

Seppo Vainio is a professor of developmental biology at the University of Oulu, Finland. He also serves as a scientific director of Kvantum Institute in Oulu University, Finland. He is a team leader in Kvantum Institute and Infotech Oulu and A vice director GeneCellNano flagship. His team Is targeting the biology of cell secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) in nature and medicine. Vainio received his PhD in embryology in Helsinki University and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University 1997.  The goal of Dr. Vainio’s lab identified the genes, signals and molecular pathways associated to urogenital system development. In the InfoTech Oulu the focus area is novel biosensor strategies. He is particularly interested today in the cellular and organ level Nano communication roles of EVs in organogenesis and in disease. Based on their developmental biology work its relevance to evolution and disease he has formulated a meta theory that integrates the epigenetic and the genetic aspects of EVs to a collective and testable framework for evolution and disease. Vainio is the author of around 200 scientific publications and is a member of Oulu Cell Matrix research Center in Oulu University. Google Scholar papers (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p9fUP30AAAAJ&hl=en).