Research group members:

MD, Professor Perttu Lindsberg, principal investigator

MD, Docent Petra Ijäs, postdoctoral investigator

MD, Docent Tiina Sairanen, postdoctoral investigator

MD, Docent Daniel Strbian, postdoctoral investigator

MD, Docent Marja-Liisa Karjalainen-Lindsberg, postdoctoral investigator

MD, PhD Krista Nuotio, postdoctoral investigator

PhD Jani Saksi, postdoctoral investigator

PhD Hanna Heikkilä, postdoctoral investigator

MD, MSc Suvi Koskinen, predoctoral investigator

MD Pia Isoviita, predoctoral investigator

MD Olli Mattila, predoctoral investigator

Saana Pihlasviita, medical student, predoctoral investigator

Juhani Ritvonen, medical student, predoctoral investigator

Iida Laitinen, medical student, predoctoral investigator

Nancy Lim, MSc student

Sonja Jatuli, research nurse

MSc Hande Demir-Holopainen, laboratory  manager


Recent Ph.D. Theses:

Jani Saksi, Stroke-associated carotid atherosclerosis: a role for FABP4 in atheroma vulnerability and cardiometabolic risk. PhD 2015

Daniel Strbian, The role of mast cells in ischemic and hemorrhagic brain injury. MD PhD, 2008

Krista Nuotio, Molecular mediators linking stroke and carotid artery disease. MD, PhD 2007

Jinghui Yang, Peripheral immune response in chronic relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in SJL mice. MD, PhD 2003

Tiina Sairanen, Mediators of inflammation in cerebral ischemia: roles of cytokine and cyclooxygenase-2 activation. MD, PhD 2001

Main Collaborators (outside Molecular Neurology Program):

Professor Petri T. Kovanen Wihuri Research Insitute, Helsinki

Professor Heinrich Mattle, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland