Anne Roivainen
Professor, Preclinical Imaging and Drug Reseach
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Antti Saraste
Professor, Internal Medicine
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Senthil Palani
Senior researcher

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

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

Maxwell Miner
Postdoc
Prince Dadson
Postdoc
Jenni Virta
Postdoc
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.

Arina Roys
Postdoc

Project: Development of Novel Radiopharmaceuticals for PET Imaging in Inflammation and Regulatory Considerations for Their Approval

Publications may appear under the name: Arghavan Jahandideh

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 .

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

  Funding : ImmunoDocs - National Doctoral Education Pilot Based on the Immune System

 

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 disea

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

 

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.

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Immunology (ImmunoDocs) University of Turku

  Funding : ImmunoDocs - National Doctoral Education Pilot Based on the Immune System

 

Mitra Gerami
PhD researcher

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

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Immunology (ImmunoDocs) University of Turku

  Funding : ImmunoDocs - National Doctoral Education Pilot Based on the Immune System

 

Roosa Rahkonen
PhD researcher

Project: Molecular imaging of the inflammation-fibrosis crosstalk in cardiovascular disease

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Immunology (ImmunoDocs) University of Turku


 

Samani Akbari Negar
PhD researcher

Project: Development of radiopharmaceuticals for whole-body quantification of MCT1/4 expression dynamics with PET.

Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Immunology (ImmunoDocs) University of Turku