Anne Roivainen
Professor, Preclinical Imaging and Drug Reseach
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Antti Saraste
Professor, Internal Medicine
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Mia Ståhle
Senior researcher

Project : Development of new PET imaging approaches to detect early disease activity in aortic valve stenosis

 

Funding: Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine, and Technology (TCSMT), European Atherosclerosis Society

Senthil Palani
Postdoc

Project : Exploring potential markers to image different macrophage sub-populations using Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

Maxwell Miner
Postdoc

Project : Emerging radiopharmaceuticals for PET-imaging gliomas. A multi-: radiopharmaceutical, camera, modality, model, and modelling assessment

Prince Dadson
Postdoc
Jenni Virta
Postdoc

Project: Molecular imaging of caldiovascular disease in type-2 diabetes: evaluation of experimental models and their responses to treatment.

Doctoral Program: Drug research Doctoral Programme (DRDP) University of Turku

Funding: Drug Research Doctoral Programme, Turku University Foundation.

Heidi Liljenbäck
Project Researcher

Role: Working with many different disease models and preclinical imaging. Assistance in planning and practical execution of in vivo experiments and preclinical PET imaging studies.

Aake Honkaniemi
Research Coordinator

Role: Scheduling and technical operation of PET scanners used in the groups preclinical trials and updating the imaging/trial database.

Arghavan Jahandideh
PhD Student

Project: Molecular imaging of cardiac inflammation using new PET tracers in experimental models.

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (DPCR) University of Turku

Funding: Doctoral Program of Clinical Research, Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research 

Ella Kujala
PhD researcher

Project: Determining the effects of diet, microbiological status and microbiota on the metabolic phenotype of ApoE-/- mice as a model for drug development .

Putri Andriana
PhD researcher

Project: Development of new radiopharmaceutical targeting macrophage mannose receptor (CD206) for PET detection of inflammation and inflammatory disease.

Doctoral Program: Drug research Doctoral Programme (DRDP) University of Turku

Funding: University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), InFLAMES Research Flagship.

Imran Iqbal
PhD researcher

Project: Molecular imaging in myocardial infarction.

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (DPCR) University of Turku

Erika Atencio Herre
PhD researcher

Project: Radiopharmaceutical 18F-PEG-Folate: Radiosynthesis and evaluation of in vitro binding and in vivo imaging of inflammation.

Doctoral Program: Drug research Doctoral Programme (DRDP) University of Turku

Arman Anand
PhD researcher

Project: New molecular imaging approach to study fibrosis in myocardial diseases.

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (DPCR) University of Turku

Achol Bhowmik
MD, PhD researcher

Project : Detection of Intestinal Inflammation by [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-Siglec-9 PET Imaging in Mouse Models of IBD and Patients with Crohn’s disease.

Shiva Latifi
PhD researcher

Project: Effect of exercise on immune cell responses in cancer: CD8+ T cells and adhesion molecule VAP-1 of special interest

Funding: InFLAMES Research Flagship

Mitra Gerami
PhD researcher

Project : Molecular imaging of inflammation in bowel disease using new PET tracers in experimental models.

Funding : InFLAMES Research Flagship

Erki Malmer
Master thesis student

Project : Imaging of inflammation in calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD)