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
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
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
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
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
Research Group:
Heat Shock Response Goes Beyond Cell Stress
Lea Sistonen
lea.sistonen[at]abo.fi
Department of Biosciences
Åbo Akademi University
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
Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Imaging, Immunology, Inflammation, Next-generation sequencing, Receptor, Screening, Target discovery