Valtteri Wirta

Valtteri Wirta, Ph.D. serves as Head of Clinical Genomics facility at Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden since January 2013, and Head of operations at Genomic Medicine Center Karolinska at Karolinska University Hospital since May 2017. Dr. Wirta is affiliated to Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet and School of Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). As the Head of Clinical Genomics, Dr Wirta and his team are working with the Swedish healthcare system to facilitate the transition of genomics technologies, especially massively parallel DNA sequencing, into routine diagnostic use. Dr. Wirta has significant experience in working with genomics-based technologies and managing interdisciplinary teams both in biotech industry and academia. He received M.Sc. in molecular biology from Stockholm University in 2001 and Ph.D. in biotechnology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2006.