Research Groups and R&D Platforms: Cancer

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:
Biomarkers for ovarian cancer

Kaisa Huhtinen
kaisa.huhtinen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Kaisa Huhtinen

Ageing-related diseases, Biomarker, Biomedicine, Cancer, Diagnostics, Genomics, In Vitro Diagnostics, Molecular Biology, Molecular diagnostics, Next-generation sequencing, Ovarian cancer, Pathology, Personalized medicine

Research Group:
Herpesviruses as friends and enemies

Veijo Hukkanen
veijo.hukkanen[at]utu.fi

Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Turku

Veijo Hukkanen

Autoimmune diseases, Basic research, Biomedicine, Cancer, Disease models, Imaging, In Vitro Diagnostics, Infection, Inflammation, Next-generation sequencing, Nucleic acids, Virology

Research Group:
Bioactive natural compounds

Patrik Eklund
paeklund[at]abo.fi

Laboratory of Organic Chemistry,
Åbo Akademi University

Patrik Eklund

Cancer, Diabetes, Hit to lead, Inflammation, Lead optimization, Natural Compounds, Natural products, NMR, Organic Chemistry, Organic compounds, Synthetic chemistry