Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Cancer

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

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Research Group:
Cancer Cell Signaling

Jukka Westermarck
jukwes[at]utu.fi

Turku Bioscience Centre and Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Jukka Westermarck

Cancer Cell Signaling

Assay development, Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Data mining, Diagnostics, Disease models, Drug delivery, Genomics, Lung cancer, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Nanoparticles, Next-generation sequencing, Pathology, Personalized medicine, Prostate cancer, Proteomics, Receptor, Screening, Signaling, Squamous cell carcinoma, Systems Biology, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography

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

Research Group:
Radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging

Xiang-Guo Li
xiali[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre,
University of Turku

Xiang-Guo Li

Turku PET Centre

ResearchGate

Antibodies, Assay development, Biomedicine, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Clinical Chemistry, Drug delivery, Drug solubility, Drug stability, Formulation, Imaging, In Vivo Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Medicinal chemistry, Metabolic diseases, Molecular diagnostics, Nanoparticles, Nucleic acids, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, Personalized medicine, PET, Pharmacy, Physico-chemical properties, Preclinical development, Synthetic chemistry

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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

Research Group:
Signaling of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Cancer and Development

Klaus Elenius
klaele[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Klaus Elenius

Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Data mining, Diagnostics, Drug delivery, Drug target, Genomics, Lung cancer, Melanoma, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular modelling, Next-generation sequencing, Pathology, Personalized medicine, Receptor, Signaling, Squamous cell carcinoma, Target discovery