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
Project : Exploring potential markers to image different macrophage sub-populations using Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Project : Emerging radiopharmaceuticals for PET-imaging gliomas. A multi-: radiopharmaceutical, camera, modality, model, and modelling assessment
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.
Doctoral Program: Drug research Doctoral Programme (DRDP) University of Turku
Funding: Drug Research Doctoral Programme, Turku University Foundation.
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
Project: Determining the effects of diet, microbiological status and microbiota on the metabolic phenotype of ApoE-/- mice as a model for drug development .
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.
Project: Molecular imaging in myocardial infarction.
Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (DPCR) University of Turku
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
Project: New molecular imaging approach to study fibrosis in myocardial diseases.
Doctoral Program: Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (DPCR) University of Turku
Project : Detection of Intestinal Inflammation by [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-Siglec-9 PET Imaging in Mouse Models of IBD and Patients with Crohn’s disease.
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
Project : Molecular imaging of inflammation in bowel disease using new PET tracers in experimental models.
Project : Imaging of inflammation in calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD)