Drug development
and diagnostics

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:
Hormonal cancer growth and metastasis

Pirkko Härkönen
harkonen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Pirkko Härkönen

Ageing-related diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Breast cancer, Cancer, Disease models, Drug target, Personalized medicine, Prostate cancer, Receptor, Signaling, Target discovery

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

Research Group:
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in pathogenesis and therapeutics of cardiometabolic diseases

Eriika Savontaus
eriika.savontaus[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Eriika Savontaus

TCDM - Turku Center for Disease Modeling

Basic research, Biomedicine, Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Disease models, Drug target, Endocrinology, Metabolic diseases, Obesity, Pharmacology, Receptor, Target discovery