Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Ageing-related diseases

Research Group:
Cardiac Biomarkers

Saara Wittfooth
saara.wittfooth@utu.fi

Department of Life Technologies,
University of Turku

Saara Wittfooth

Ageing-related diseases, Antibodies, Assay development, Autoimmune diseases, Biomarker, Biotechnology, Cardiovascular diseases, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, In Vitro Diagnostics, Inflammation, Metabolic diseases, Obesity

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Research Group:
Kinase Function in Brain

Eleanor Coffey
eleanor.coffey[at]bioscience.fi

Turku Bioscience Centre,
Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku

Eleanor Coffey

Kinase Function in Brain

Ageing-related diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Data mining, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug target, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Molecular Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Molecular modelling, Neurological disorders, PET, Proteomics, Screening, Signaling, Super-resolution imaging, Systems Biology, Target discovery

Research Group:
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

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Research Group:
Biomedical Epigenomics

Riikka Lund
riikka.lund[at]utu.fi

Biomedical Epigenomics Group,
Turku Bioscience Centre,

University of Turku

Riikka Lund

Biomedical Epigenomics

Ageing-related diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Data mining, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug target, Epigenomics, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Next-generation sequencing, Personalized medicine, Target discovery

Research Group:
Alpha2-Adrenoceptors as targets for drug development

Mika Scheinin
mschein[at]utu.fi

University of Turku, Turku University Hospital and CRST Oy

Mika Scheinin

Clinical Research Services Turku

Ageing-related diseases, Allergy, Antibodies, Assay development, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biopharmaceuticals, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Clinical Medicine, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug target, Endocrinology, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Medicinal chemistry, Metabolic diseases, Metal disorders, Molecular diagnostics, Musculoskeletal disorders, Natural products, Neurological disorders, Obesity, Organic compounds, Personalized medicine, PET, Pharmacology, Receptor, Screening, Signaling, Skin diseases, Target discovery

Research Group:
Radiochemistry for development of radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography

Olof Solin
olof.solin[at]abo.fi, olof.solin[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre and Department of Chemistry,
University of Turku

Olof Solin

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Autoimmune diseases, Biomarker, Cancer, Data mining, Diabetes, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug stability, Drug target, Formulation, Imaging, Imaging software, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Metabolic diseases, Molecular diagnostics, Molecular modelling, Nanoparticles, Neurological disorders, NMR, Nucleic acids, Obesity, Organic compounds, Particle size analysis, PET, Physico-chemical properties, Receptor, Signaling, Synthetic chemistry, Target discovery, Zeta potential