Name

Subject

Supervisor(s)

Title of PhD project

1

 Hagert Cecilia

Medical microbiology and immunology

Holmdahl Rikard, Jalkanen Sirpa

Macrophage redox-regulation of arthritis

2

 Hakkarainen Janne

Physiology, Biomedicine

Poutanen Matti, Fuping Zhang

The role of Hydroxysteroid (17beta) dehydrogenases 1 and 6 in steroid biosynthesis: Novel targets for hormonal therapies

3

 Hellberg Sanna

Clinical Physiology and Isotope Medicine

Roivainen Anne, Saraste Antti

Preclinical evaluation of new PET radiopharmaceuticals for atherosclerotic plaques

4

 Härmä Ville

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Nees Matthias

Three-dimensional organotypic cell culture models in prostate cancer research

5

 Jalkanen Juho

Surgery, Vascular research

Hakovirta Harri

Endoteelisolun puriiniaineenvaihdunnan merkitys ateroskleroosin synnyssä

6

 Joensuu Kristiina

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Hentunen Teuvo, Heino Terhi

Interaction of human mesenchymal stem cells and circulating mononuclear cells in tissue engineering

7

 Jokinen Elina

Cell biology and anatomy, Biomedicine

Peltonen Juha, Peltonen Sirkku

Cancer incidence in Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and biomarker analysis of NF1-related malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) and breast cancer

8

 Knuuttila Matias

Physiology

Poutanen Matti, Mäkelä Sari

Modulation of sex steroid synthesis and signaling in prostate cancer: Targeting hydroxysteroid (17beta) dehydrogenases

9

 Kouki Annika

Medical Biochemistry

Finne Jukka, Haataja Sauli

Identification and characterization of a novel adhesin of Streptococcus suis and its use as a target of adhesion inhibition and bacterial detection

10

 Lehti Mari

Physiology

Kotaja Noora, Sironen Anu

The role of sperm flagellar protein 2 and kinesin II subunit KIF3A in spermatogenesis and clia formation

11

 Li Molong

Clinical Physiology

Alastalo Tero-Pekka, Koskenvuo Juha

Investigating novel pathways in pulmonary arterial hypertension and endothelial dysfunction using high-throughput technologies

12

 Lovro Zsófia Kinga

Pharmacology

Scheinin Mika

Imaging of α2-adrenoceptors in the central nervous system

13

 Rinne Valtteri

Pharmacology

Scheinin Mika

Development of sirtuin inhbitors as anticancer drugs

14

 Merilahti Pirjo

Virology

Susi Petri

Ihmisen parechovirusten reseptorit ja infektiomekanismit

15

 Sahlberg Anna

Medical microbiology and immunology

Penttinen Markus, Granfors Kaisa

Reaktiiviselle artritille ja muille reumataudeille altistavan kudostekijä HLA-B27:n vaikutus solunsisäiseen signalointiin

16

 Silvola Tiina

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Härkönen Pirkko, Ivaska Kaisa

Rintasyöpäsolujen ja luuytimen mesenkymaalisten strooman solujen väliset vuorovaikutukset rintasyövän luupesäkkeissä

17

 Tambe Mahesh

Physiology

Kallio Marko, Kallio Lila

Target identification and validation of anti-mitotic miRNAs