Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Breast cancer

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

Matthias Nees

Malin Åkerfelt

HCSLab

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

Picture of Lea Sistonen

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

R&D Platform:
Cancer Centre of the Turku University Hospital

The Tyks Cancer Centre guarantees high-quality cancer treatment and research in the hospital districts of Southwest Finland, Satakunta and Vaasa.

The Tyks Cancer Centre works to unify treatment practices and treatment quality, and to see to it that patients get access to treatment according to unified criteria in a timely manner in the western coastal area of Finland. This puts the patients with cancer at the right place at the right time, regardless of where they live. 

The Tyks Cancer Centre is a part of the Cancer Center Finland (FICAN) – a national enterprise under construction to coordinate cancer treatment, research and education in the whole of Finland.

The Tyks Cancer Centre

Breast cancer, Cancer, Clinical development, Colorectal cancer, Diagnostics, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Lung cancer, Melanoma, Ovarian cancer, Prostate cancer, R&D Platforms, Squamous cell carcinoma