Meet the team
Postdoctoral alumni
Hussein Al Akhrass
July 2021; next step: R & D Manager, Boehringer and Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria
Antti Arjonen
until 2015; next step: Senior researcher at Misvik Biology Ltd, Turku, Finland
James Conway
August 2024; next step: Research Council of Finland Fellow, Principal Investigator, Tumour microenvironment and metastasis lab, University of Helsinki, FI
Maria Georgiadou
August 2018; next step: Senior Researcher at Orion Pharma, Finland
Camilo Guzmán
October 2018; next step: Facility manager (Nanophotonics) at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
Jaroslav Icha
October 2019; next step: Application Specialist, Promega, Prague, Czechia
Guillaume Jacquemet
August 2019; next step: Research Council of Finland Fellow, Principal Investigator, Cell Migration Lab, Åbo Akademi University, Finland!
Anja Mai
until 2016; next step: Researcher at BerGenBio, Bergen, Norway
Ghaffar Muharram
until 2013; next step: Scientist at University of Lille, Lille, France
Elisa Närvä
April 2021; next step: Principal Investigator, Pluripotency & Cancer Laboratory, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland!
Ilkka Paatero
August 2019; next step: Head of Zebrafish Facility, Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku
Emilia Peuhu
August 2019; next step: Principal Investigator, Peuhu lab, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland!
Mika Pietilä
until 2017; next step: Medical Advisor, Astra Zeneca, Espoo, Finland
Jeroen Pouwels
until 2013; next step: group leader at Turku Bioscience Centre, Turku, Finland
Stefan Veltel
next step: lecturer at University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Phd alumni
Jonna Alanko
(thesis defended 2016) - next step : postdoc in the Michael Sixt lab, IST, Austria
Antti Arjonen
(thesis defended 2013)
Nicola De Franceschi
(thesis defended 2016) - next step: postdoc in Institute Curie, FR
Gunilla Högnäs
(thesis defended 2013) - next step : postdoc University of Tampere, FI
Aleksi Isomursu
(thesis defended 2024) - next steps : postdoc, Sandrine Etienne-Manneville's lab, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Riina Kaukonen
(thesis defended 2016) - next step : postdoc in Turku Bioscience Centre
Martina Lerche
(thesis defended 2021) - next step : postdoc, Clare Waterman's lab, NIH, US
Johanna Lilja
(thesis defended 2020) - next steps : postdoc, Johanna Joyce's lab, University of Lausanne, CH
Anja Mai
(thesis defended 2011)
Elina Mattila
(thesis defended 2009) - now Senior Scientist at Orion Pharma, Finland
Mitro Miihkinen
(thesis defended 2021) - next step : studying statistics at University of Turku, FI.
Jonna Nevo
(thesis defended 2011) - next step : MD, Oncologist
Teijo Pellinen
(thesis defended 2009) - now Senior Researcher at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Helsinki, Finland
Juha Rantala
(thesis defended 2011) - next step : CEO at Misvik Biology and Principal Investigator at the University of Sheffield, UK
Pranshu Sahgal
(thesis defended 2018) - next step : postdoc in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, US
Siiri Salomaa
(thesis defended 2020) - next step : postdoc, Kevin Chalut's lab, University of Cambridge, UK
Aki Stubb
(thesis defended 2019) - next steps : postdoc, Ewa Paluch's lab, University of Cambridge, UK
Maria Taskinen
(thesis defended 2022) - next step: Paul Workman's lab, ICR, London, UK
Saara Tuomi
(thesis defended 2010) - Next step : Postdoc at the Danish Cancer Society
Reetta Virtakoivu
(thesis defended 2015) - next step : postdoc in Institute of Biomedicine, FI
Karolina Vuoriluoto
(thesis defended 2010) - next step : Drug Safety Specialist, Orion Corporation
Masters alumni
Nuria Barber Perez
Max Grönloh
Niklas Jäntti
David Kühl
Maria Rafaeva
Paula Rasila
Rafael Saup
Sonja Vahlman
Taru Varila