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.

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

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

Funding: Drug Research Doctoral Programme, Turku University Foundation.

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

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

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

Project: Radiosynthesis of [18F](2S, 4R)4-Fluoroglutamine for in-vivo PET imaging.

Funding: Drug research Doctoral Program, Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Project: Development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Agent Targeting Macrophage Mannose Receptor (MMR) in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer.

Funding: Turku University Foundation.

Project: Molecular imaging in myocardial infarction.

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

Project: Folate receptor beta as an imaging target in myocardial infarction.