Max Kiugel defends his PhD Thesis June 1st 2018

Max will publicly defend his PhD thesis “Molecular Imaging of Tissue Repair after Myocardial Infarction, Preclinical evaluation of novel (68)Ga-labeled PET tracers”.

The public event will be held Friday June 1st 2018 at 12 o’clock in the Risto Lahesmaa lecture hall (TYKS, T -hospital, Hämeentie 11). Professor John Prior (University of Lausanne) will act as the opponent and associate professor Antti Saraste (University of Turku) as the custodian. The dissertation is in English.

Roivainen group is part of the Health from Science – programme

Roivainen group is a part of the Health from Science programme (TERVA) of the Academy of Finland. The programme spans from 2018 to 2020.

Our project in the programme is Reprogramming of macrophage phenotypes as early predictor of cardiovascular and metabolic disease development (MAP-CAD). One of our postdocs, Senthil Palani, is already working hard on the project.

Funding decicions for the TERVA programme were made november 2017.

Link to TERVA programme Homepage.