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

Research Group:
Molecular imaging and biobank research in cancer

Heikki Minn
heikki.minn[at]utu.fi

Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy/Turku PET Centre,
Turku University Hospital

Contact person: Tiina Jonkka   tiina.jonkka[at]tyks.fi

Heikki Minn

Oncological Research

Ageing-related diseases, Bioinformatics, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Clinical Medicine, Computer Science, Data mining, Disease models, Imaging, In Vivo Diagnostics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Next-generation sequencing, NMR, PET, Physics, Prostate cancer, Receptor, Squamous cell carcinoma

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

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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:
Early detection of Alzheimer´s disease: a translational study

Juha Rinne
juha.rinne[at]tyks.fi

Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and
Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Turku University Hospital

Juha Rinne

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Biomarker, Clinical development, Clinical Medicine, Diagnostics, Imaging, In Vivo Diagnostics, Molecular diagnostics, Neurological disorders, PET, Receptor

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Research Group:
Structural bioinformatics for drug discovery and development

Mark S. Johnson
finmark54 at icloud dot com

Biochemistry,
Åbo Akademi University

Mark S. Johnson

Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory

Ageing-related diseases, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biomolecular chemistry, Biopharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Cancer, Chemical Physics, Computer Science, Diabetes, Drug target, Hit to lead, Inflammation, Inherited diseases, Lead optimization, Lung cancer, Medicinal chemistry, Metabolic diseases, Molecular modelling, Musculoskeletal disorders, Nucleic acids, Organic compounds, Pattern recognition, Personalized medicine, Physico-chemical properties, Preclinical development, Receptor, Signaling, Structural Biology, Surface area, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography