Research Groups and R&D Platforms: In Vitro Diagnostics

Research Group:
PET imaging of neuropathological changes in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease

Merja Haaparanta-Solin
mehaaso[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre, Preclinical Imaging,
University of Turku

Merja Haaparanta-Solin

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Antibodies, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biochemistry, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Disease models, Drug target, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Metabolic diseases, Nanoparticles, Neurological disorders, Organic compounds, PET, Pharmacology, Preclinical development, Receptor, Target discovery

Research Group:
Imaging Alzheimer’s disease beta-amyloid pathology in transgenic mouse models using positron emission tomography

Francisco López-Picón
fralop[at]utu.fi

Turku PET Centre, Preclinical Imaging,
University of Turku

Francisco López-Picón

Turku PET Centre

Ageing-related diseases, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Medicine, Disease models, Drug delivery, Drug target, Epigenomics, Imaging, Imaging software, In Vitro Diagnostics, In Vivo Diagnostics, Inflammation, Molecular Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Neurological disorders, Pathology, PET, Pharmacology, Physiology, Preclinical development, Proteomics, Target discovery

Research Group:
Laboratory of Biophysics

Pekka Hänninen
pekka.e.hanninen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Pekka Hänninen

Assay development, Atomic-force microscopy, Biomolecular chemistry, Cancer, Data mining, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, Machine learning, Nanoparticles, Physics, Super-resolution imaging

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Research Group:
Innate and adaptive immunity in viral infections

Ilkka Julkunen
ilkka.julkunen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine
University of Turku

Ilkka Julkunen

Antibodies, Assay development, Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Imaging, Imaging software, Immunology, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Medicinal chemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Molecular modelling, Neurological disorders, Pattern recognition, Proteomics, Receptor, Signaling, Virology

Research Group:
Biomaterials for controlled delivery of drugs and antigens and for tissue engineering

Mika Jokinen
mika.jokinen[at]turkuamk.fi

Chemical Engineering / Biomaterials & Diagnostics,
Turku University of Applied Sciences

New Materials and Processes

Uudet materiaalit ja prosessit

Biopharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Drug delivery, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Formulation, FTIR or RAMAN spectroscopy, In Vitro Diagnostics, Particle size analysis, Physico-chemical properties, Preclinical development

Research Group:
Bio-Organic Chemistry

Tuomas Lönnberg
tuanlo[at]utu.fi

Department of Chemistry,
University of Turku

Tuomas Lönnberg

Bioorganic Group

Basic research, Biomolecular chemistry, Diagnostics, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Hit to lead, In Vitro Diagnostics, Lead optimization, NMR, Nucleic acids, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, Synthetic chemistry