Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Autoimmune diseases

Research Group:
Host response and molecular variation in respiratory and enteric virus infections
Matti Waris
matti.waris[at]utu.fi
Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku
Antibodies, Assay development, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Epidemiology, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular diagnostics, Nanoparticles, Next-generation sequencing, Nucleic acids, Point of care, Polymorph analysis, Screening, Virology

Research Group:
Herpesviruses as friends and enemies
Veijo Hukkanen
veijo.hukkanen[at]utu.fi
Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku
Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomedicine, Cancer, Disease models, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Next-generation sequencing, Nucleic acids, Virology

Research Group:
Immunogenetics of autoimmune diseases
Jorma Ilonen
jorma.ilonen[at]utu.fi
Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku
Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomedicine, Diabetes, Epigenomics, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Polymorph analysis

Research Group:
Synthetic chemistry and chemical biology
Reko Leino
reko.leino[at]abo.fi
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry,
Åbo Akademi University
Allergy, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases, Biomedicine, Biomolecular chemistry, Biopharmaceuticals, Cancer, Drug delivery, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Hit to lead, Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Lead optimization, Medicinal chemistry, Melanoma, Molecular modelling, Natural Compounds, Natural products, NMR, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, PET, Powder X-ray diffraction, Screening, Skin diseases, Synthetic chemistry, Thermal analysis, X-ray crystallography

Research Group:
Lymphocytes and Inflammation
Zhi Chen
zchen[at]utu.fi
Turku Bioscience Centre and Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku
Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Cancer, Genomics, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, Inflammation, Next-generation sequencing, Proteomics, Screening, Target discovery

Research Group:
New methods and biomarkers for IBD
Harri Siitari
harri.siitari[at]utu.fi
Laboratory of Medical physics,
University of Turku
Biomarkers and decision support tools for personalized diagnostics and care
Assay development, Autoimmune diseases, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Data mining, Diagnostics, In Vitro Diagnostics, Inflammation, Molecular diagnostics, Neurological disorders, NMR, Personalized medicine