Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Lead optimization

Research Group:
Mesoporous drug carriers/ Electrostatics / Pharmaceutical Physics

Jarno Salonen
jarno.salonen[at]utu.fi

Industrial Physics Laboratory,
University of Turku

Jarno Salonen

Biopharmaceuticals, Cancer, Chemical Physics, Diabetes, Drug delivery, Drug solubility, Drug stability, Drug target, Electron microscopy, FTIR or RAMAN spectroscopy, Lead optimization, Microstructure analysis, Nanoparticles, NMR, Obesity, Particle size analysis, Pharmacy, Physico-chemical properties, Physics, Polymorph analysis, Porosity, Powder X-ray diffraction, Preclinical development, Surface area, Thermal analysis, Zeta potential

Research Group:
Bioorganic Group

Pasi Virta
pamavi[at]utu.fi

Bioorganic chemistry group, Department of Chemistry,
University of Turku

Pasi Virta

Atomic-force microscopy, Cancer, Drug target, Hit to lead, Lead optimization, Medicinal chemistry, Nanoparticles, Neurological disorders, NMR, Nucleic acids, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, PET, Synthetic chemistry, Thermal analysis

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Research Group:
Tissues Regeneration and Cancer

Fang Cheng
fang.cheng[at]utu.fi

Turku Bioscience Centre,
University of Turku

Fang Cheng

Tissues Regeneration and Cancer

Assay development, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Disease models, Drug target, High throughput imaging, Imaging, Inflammation, Lead optimization, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Cell Biology, Natural Compounds, Personalized medicine, Screening, Signaling, Skin diseases, Target discovery

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Research Group:
Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory

Tiina A. Salminen
tiina.salminen[at]abo.fi

Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory,
Åbo Akademi University

Tiina Salminen

Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory

Antibacterial, Autoimmune diseases, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Data mining, Diabetes, Drug target, Hit to lead, Infection, Inflammation, Inherited diseases, Lead optimization, Molecular modelling, Obesity, Personalized medicine, Physico-chemical properties, Polymorph analysis, Receptor, Structural Biology, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography

Research Group:
Bioactive natural compounds

Patrik Eklund
paeklund[at]abo.fi

Laboratory of Organic Chemistry,
Åbo Akademi University

Patrik Eklund

Cancer, Diabetes, Hit to lead, Inflammation, Lead optimization, Natural Compounds, Natural products, NMR, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, Synthetic chemistry

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Research Group:
Complex Reaction Kinetics and Thermodynamics

Dmitry Murzin
dmurzin[at]abo.fi

Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering,
Åbo Akademi University

Dmitry Murzin

Basic research, Cancer, Lead optimization, Medicinal chemistry, Nanoparticles, Natural products, Neurological disorders, Organic compounds, Physico-chemical properties, Porosity, Preclinical development, Surface area, Synthetic chemistry, Zeta potential