Mika Rämet

Professor
Professor
Professor of Pediatrics

Research Unit of Clinical Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

Dr Mika Rämet, Professor of Peadiatrics, received his MD and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oulu, Finland. Rämet worked as a research Fellow at the Harvard University, Boston from 1999 to 2002. After returning to Finland, he has received Specialist’s degree in Peadiatrics and Neonatology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has led his independent research team since 2003.

Researcher information

Professional and community activities

Scientific merits

Thesis supervisions

Suprvised Ph.D. thesis as the only supervisor

Leena-Maija Vanha-aho (2015) A Functional Study of the Drosophila Host Defense (accepted with distinction)

Henna Myllymäki (2013) Negative regulation of Drosophila immune response (accepted with distinction)

Jenni Kallio (2011) Systems biological study of Drosophila immune signaling

Anni Kleino (2010) The Imd pathway-mediated immune response in Drosophila (accepted with distinction)

Johanna Ulvila (2008) Functional genomic analysis of the Drosophila immune response : identification of genes essential for phagocytosis, viral defense and NF-κB signaling (accepted with distinction)

Suprvised Ph.D. thesis as the main supervisor

Sanna-Kaisa Harjula (2020) Zebrafish as a Genetic Model to Study Tuberculosis

Markus Ojanen (2019) Reverse Genetics to Study Immunity against Mycobacteria in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Anni Saralahti (2019) A Zebrafish Model for Host-pathogen Interactions in Streptococcal Infections

Anu Pasanen (2018) Genetic susceptibility to childhood bronchiolitis

Suprvised Ph.D. thesis as a co-supervisor

Abdelmoneim Khashana (2020) Cortisol and other adrenal steroids in critical neonatal disease associated with shock (main supervisor em. Professor Mikko Hallman)

Toni Grönroos (2019) Transcriptional regulation and cell signaling in acute lymphoblastic leukemia and hematopoiesis (main supervisor Ad. Professor Olli Lohi)

Mari Mahlman (2018), Genetic background and antenatal risk factors of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (main supervisor em. Professor Mikko Hallman)

Mika Hammaren (2017) Zebrafish Model for Studying the Disease Spectrum of Tuberculosis (main supervisor Adjunct Professor Mataleena Parikka, accepted with distinction)

Juha Grönholm (2012) Evolutionary Conserved Regulatory Mechanisms of the JAK/STAT Pathway (main supervisor Professor Olli Silvennoinen, accepted with distinction)

Johan Löfgren (2009) Genetic polymorphisms in collectins and Toll-like receptor 4 as factors influencing susceptibility to severe RSV infections and otitis (main supervisor em. Professor Mikko Hallman)

Contact information

E-mail

mika.ramet@oulu.fi

Keywords

Medicine and health sciences Clinical medicine gene research and technologies