Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Biomedicine

Research Group:
High Content Screening Laboratory

Matthias Nees (Principal Investigator)

Malin Åkerfelt (Contact person, in picture)
malake[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
Univesity of Turku

Matthias Nees

Malin Åkerfelt

HCSLab

Assay development, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Breast cancer, Cancer, Disease models, Drug target, High throughput imaging, Hit to lead, Imaging, Inflammation, Lead optimization, Lung cancer, Machine learning, Molecular Cell Biology, Natural Compounds, Prostate cancer, Screening, Target discovery

Research Group:
Molecular epidemiology, carriage and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial pathogens

Jaana Vuopio
jaana.vuopio[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Jaana Vuopio

Antibacterial, Antibodies, Bacteriology, Basic research, Bioinformatics, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Clinical Medicine, Data mining, Diagnostics, Epidemiology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular diagnostics, Next-generation sequencing, Nucleic acids, Personalized medicine, Point of care, Receptor

Research Group:
PET imaging of neuropathological changes in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease

Merja Haaparanta-Solin
mehaaso[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre, Preclinical Imaging,
University of Turku

Merja Haaparanta-Solin

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Antibodies, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Disease models, Drug target, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Metabolic diseases, Nanoparticles, Neurological disorders, Organic compounds, PET, Pharmacology, Preclinical development, Receptor, Target discovery

Research Group:
Imaging Alzheimer’s disease beta-amyloid pathology in transgenic mouse models using positron emission tomography

Francisco López-Picón
fralop[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre, Preclinical Imaging,
University of Turku

Francisco López-Picón

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Medicine, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug target, Epigenomics, Imaging, Imaging software, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Molecular Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Neurological disorders, Pathology, PET, Pharmacology, Physiology, Preclinical development, Proteomics, Target discovery

Picture of Lea Sistonen

Research Group:
Heat Shock Response Goes Beyond Cell Stress

Lea Sistonen
lea.sistonen[at]abo.fi

Department of Biosciences
Åbo Akademi University

Lea Sistonen

Heat Shock Response

Sistonen Lab

Ageing-related diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Data mining, Disease models, Epigenomics, Genomics, Imaging, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neurological disorders, Prostate cancer, Proteomics, Signaling, Target discovery

Research Group:
Leukocyte traffic and the immune response

Marko Salmi
marko.salmi[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine
University of Turku

Marko Salmi

Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Imaging, Immunology, Inflammation, Next-generation sequencing, Receptor, Screening, Target discovery