Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Diabetes

Research Group:
Molecular imaging of metabolic disorders

Pirjo Nuutila
pirjo.nuutila[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre

Pirjo Nuutila

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research

Diabetes, Diagnostics, Endocrinology, Imaging, In Vivo Diagnostics, Metabolic diseases, Molecular diagnostics, NMR, Obesity, Personalized medicine, PET, Receptor, Target discovery

Research Group:
Bone and energy metabolism

Kaisa Ivaska
kaisa.ivaska[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Kaisa Ivaska

Ageing-related diseases, Assay development, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Diabetes, In Vitro Diagnostics, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Cell Biology, Musculoskeletal disorders, Obesity

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Research Group:
Molecular Systems Immunology

Riitta Lahesmaa

Contact person: Anne Lahdenperä, anne.lahdenpera[at]bioscience.fi

Molecular Immunology Group,
Turku Bioscience Centre,

University of Turku

Riitta Lahesmaa

Molecular Systems Immunology

Allergy, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Bioinformatics, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Data mining, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Epigenomics, Genomics, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Metabolic diseases, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Next-generation sequencing, Personalized medicine, Proteomics, Receptor, Signaling, Systems Biology, 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:
Incretin-based therapy in preclinical and early clinical type 1 diabetes

Jorma Toppari
jorma.toppari[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Department of Pediatrics,
Turku University Hospital

Jorma Toppari

On-going trials

Clinical development, Diabetes, Preclinical development

Research Group:
Prenatal exposure of metformin and epigenetic regulation of metabolism

Markku Koulu
markku.koulu[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Markku Koulu

Basic research, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Data mining, Diabetes, Disease models, Drug target, Endocrinology, Genomics, Metabolic diseases, Nutrition, Obesity, Pharmacology, Target discovery