Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Biomedicine

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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:
Mitosis, microRNAs and drug discovery

Marko Kallio
marko.kallio[at]utu.fi

Department of Physiology,
University of Turku

Marko Kallio

Assay development, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Drug target, High throughput imaging, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, Molecular Cell Biology, Ovarian cancer, Prostate cancer, Signaling, Target discovery

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

Matti Waris

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:
Intracellular signalling regulated by Pim kinases

Päivi Koskinen
paivi.koskinen[at]utu.fi

Department of Biology,
University of Turku

Päivi Koskinen

Intracellular signalling regulated by PIM kinases

Basic research, Biomedicine, Breast cancer, Cancer, Data mining, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug target, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Imaging, Imaging software, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular modelling, Nanoparticles, Prostate cancer, Proteomics, Screening, Signaling, Squamous cell carcinoma, Target discovery, X-ray crystallography

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