Multiple Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher Positions in the Biocenter Oulu´s research projects 2024-2027– Lifelong Health

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Biocenter Oulu is one of the four focus institutes at the University of Oulu. Biocenter Oulu supports high-quality research and coordinates multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training on the University's strategic focus area Lifelong Health. The Institute promotes interdisciplinary networking of research groups as well as co-operation between groups and national and international partners.

Following Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher positions are open in the Biocenter Oulu research projects for 2024-2027:

Ala-Korpela, Mika, and Mäkinen, Ville-Petteri:

Innovative multi-domain metabolomics paradigm to disrupt metabolic health profiling and to improve cardiometabolic disease prevention

Chen, Zhi:

The essential role of Th17/Treg cells in inflammation and tumorigenesis

Eklund, Lauri, and Kiviniemi, Vesa:

Waste clearance in the brain: Pathophysiology in Alzheimer’s disease and novel treatment strategies

Huang, Jian-An, and Farrahi, Vahid:

Digital Raman assay for single-molecule protein sequencing in single live cells

Karppinen (Koivunen), Peppi:

Oxygen and 2-oxoglutarate sensing enzymes as novel therapeutic targets in metabolic, neurological and other disease

Kietzmann, Thomas:

Beyond hypoxia-inducible factors: New molecules interacting in hypoxia-signaling and metabolism

Lehtiö, Lari:

Activation mechanisms and inhibition of human mono-ADP-ribosyltransferases

Manninen, Aki, and Wei, Gong-Hong:

The ECM control of the prostate cancer genome

Pirinen, Eija, and Herzig, Karl-Heinz:

Mitochondrial targeting strategies for the treatment of obesity and metabolic diseases

Pylkäs, Katri:

Deciphering inherited breast cancer susceptibility- Integrating diagnostic and novel genomic approaches

Ruddock, Lloyd:

Identification and molecular characterization of novel pathways for disulfide formation

Saarakkala, Simo, and Jansson Miia:

Novel Raman-based reagent-free diagnostics for arthritic disease

Tapiainen, Terhi, and Reunanen, Justus:

Gut microbiome in obesity from birth to adulthood

Tiulpin, Aleksei, Tikkanen, Jani, and Nevalainen, Mika:

Low-cost screening for future cardiovascular disease incidence with opportunistic CT

Last updated: 5.10.2023