Drug development
and diagnostics

All Research Groups

Structure and function of collagen receptor integrins

Jyrki Heino
jyrki.heino[at]utu.fi

Department of Life Technologies,
University of Turku

Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomedicine, Cancer, Disease models, Imaging, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Cell Biology, Nanoparticles, Prostate cancer, Proteomics, Receptor, Signaling, Skin diseases, Structural Biology, Systems Biology, Target discovery, Virology

Functional Biomaterials & Microfluids

Hongbo Zhang
hongbo.zhang[at]abo.fi

Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory,
Åbo Akademi University

Hongbo Zhang

Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory

Precision Nanomedicine and Diagnostics

Atomic-force microscopy, Bioinformatics, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Data mining, Drug delivery, Drug solubility, Drug stability, Drug target, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence spectroscopy, FTIR or RAMAN spectroscopy, Genetics, Genomics, High throughput imaging, Imaging, Imaging software, In Vivo Diagnostics, Lead optimization, Molecular diagnostics, Nanoparticles, Next-generation sequencing, NMR, Nucleic acids, Organic compounds, Particle morphology, Particle size analysis, Personalized medicine, PET, Physico-chemical properties, Polymorph analysis, Porosity, Screening, Super-resolution imaging, Surface area, Synthetic chemistry, Target discovery, Thermal analysis, Ultrasound imaging, X-ray crystallography, Zeta potential

New tools to target harmful inflammations and cancer

Sirpa Jalkanen
sirjal[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Sirpa Jalkanen

Cell Trafficking in Cancer and Inflammation

Ageing-related diseases, Antibodies, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biopharmaceuticals, Breast cancer, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Clinical Medicine, Colorectal cancer, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug target, Imaging, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Lung cancer, Melanoma, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Musculoskeletal disorders, Neurological disorders, Obesity, Ovarian cancer, Pathology, Personalized medicine, PET, Prostate cancer, Receptor, Signaling, Skin diseases, Squamous cell carcinoma, Target discovery

RNA regulation in male germ cells

Noora Kotaja
nookot[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Noora Kotaja

Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Data mining, Developmental disorders, Disease models, Electron microscopy, Endocrinology, Epigenomics, Genomics, Imaging, Imaging software, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Next-generation sequencing, Personalized medicine, Proteomics, Reproductive Medicine, Screening, Super-resolution imaging, Target discovery

Prognostic features in triple-negative breast carcinoma

Pauliina Kronqvist
paukro[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Pauliina Kronqvist

Biomarker, Breast cancer, Cancer, Data mining, Diagnostics, Genomics, Imaging, Molecular diagnostics, Next-generation sequencing, Pathology, Personalized medicine, Point of care