Outi Hovatta Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, especially Assisted Conception was appointed professor in 1998. She is active at the Department for clinical science, intervention and technology. Outi was born in 1946 in Finland. She made her undergraduate studies during 1970 and made her dissertation at the Anatomical Institution at the Helsingborg University. Her worked involved testicles myoid cells (cells that coordinates sperm production). She became a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology at the university’s hospital. In 1986 she was appointed at the IVF clinic in Väestöliitto, which is Finland’s biggest infertility clinic, with about 1300 patient treatments per year. In 1983 she got a docent position in andrology and during1995 and 1996 she worked as a senior researcher fellow in London at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Between 1997 and 1998 she was a guest research at Imperial College School of Medicine. At the end of 1998 she was appointed Professor in Obstetrics and gynecology at Karolinska Institutet.

Infertility problems, Human oocytes, Pluripotent stem cells, Human embryonic stem cells and IVF