Links to cancer research groups in Turku
Prof. Olli Carpén and Adj. Prof. Kaisa Huhtinen – Tissue Based Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Cancer
Prof. Klaus Elenius – Actionable Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling
Prof. John Eriksson – Survival and Cytoskeletal Signaling
Adj. Prof. Maria Gardberg – Novel Fusion Genes in Glioblastoma and Melanoma
Prof. Jyrki Heino – Structure and Function of Integrins in Cancer
Adj. Prof. Maija Hollmén – Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
Adj. Prof. Kaisa Huhtinen – Biomarkers of Ovarian Cancer
Prof. Pirkko Härkonen – Hormonal Cancer Growth and Metastasis
Prof. Johanna Ivaska – Cell Adhesion and Cancer
PhD Guillaume Jacquemet – Cell Migration
Prof. Sirpa Jalkanen – Cell Trafficking in Cancer and Inflammation
MD, PhD Otto Kauko – Cancer Proteomics
Adj. Prof. Päivi Koskinen – PIM kinases in Cancer
PhD Pauliina Kronqvist – Cell Cycle Regulator Secrin as a Prognosticator in Breast Cancer
PhD Kari Kurppa – Cancer Drug Resistance
Prof. Veli-Matti Kähäri – Skin Cancer and Proteinases
Adj. Prof. Päivi Lähteenmäki – Health and Quality of Life After Early Onset Cancer
Prof. Ilmo Leivo – New diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in head and neck cancer
Prof. Juha Peltonen – Cancer syndrome/Rasopathy NF1: pathoetiology and epidemiology
Adj. Prof. Matthias Nees – Three-dimensional Cell and Tissue Culture Techniques Recapitulating the Architecture of Solid Cancers
Adj. Prof. Kim Pettersson – Early Diagnostics of Cancer
Adj. Prof. Emilia Peuhu – Breast Development and Cancer
Adj. Prof. Nafis Rahman – Pathomechanisms of Endocrine Tumors and their Novel Treatment Strategies
Adj. Prof. Pekka Ruusuvuori – Bioimage Informatics
Prof. Cecilia Sahlgren – Cell Fate
Prof. Johanna Schleutker – Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
Prof. Lea Sistonen – Cell Stress
Adj. Prof. Maria Sundvall – DNA Repair Pathways in Prostate Cancer
Adj. Prof. Pekka Taimen – Nuclear Lamins and Human Disease
Adj. Prof. Diana Toivola – Epithelial Biology Lab
Prof. Kid Törnquist – Mechanisms Regulating Thyroid Cancer Invasion and Migration
MD, PhD Sami Ventelä – New Tools to Diagnose and Treat Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Prof. Jukka Westermarck – Cancer Cell Signaling
Adj. Prof. Malin Åkerfelt – Cellular Microenvironment
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More groups that also study cancer in Turku can be found at:
https://www.utu.fi/en/university/faculty-of-medicine/institute-of-biomedicine/research/cancer-research
https://ficanwest.fi/tutkijoille/tutkimusryhmat/
https://biocityturku.fi/research-programmes/