Cancer Research in Turku

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://bioscience.fi/research/

https://www.utu.fi/en/university/faculty-of-medicine/institute-of-biomedicine/research/cancer-research

Cell Biology – research and personnel

Tutkimusryhmät

https://biocityturku.fi/research-programmes/