Merja
Soilu-Hänninen
Docent, Department of Clinical Medicine
MD, PhD
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Areas of expertise
Clinical neurology
neuroimmunology
multiple sclerosis risk factors, prognostic factors and treatment
Biography
MD, University of Turku 1988
PhD, University of Turku, Department of Virology, Immunobiology of central nervous system virus infections 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, Development and Neurobiology Group, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia 1997-1999
Specialist Degree in Neurology 2001
Adjuct Professor of Clinical Neurology 2008
Inverstigator in several clinical MS trials
Chair of the Finnish MS registry 2016-
General Neurology Section Head, Turku University Hospital, Division of Clinical Neurosciences 2017-
Teaching
Course of medical pedagogics 2011-2012
Supervisor of several PhD student
Research
Multiple sclerosis risk factors, prognostic factors and epidemiology.
Imaging of brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis.
Publications
C-reactive protein and seizure in focal epilepsy: Avideo-EEG study (2010)
Epilepsia
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
CHARACTERIZATION OF CD4+T CELLS SPECIFIC FOR GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE (GAD65) AND PROINSULIN IN A PATIENT WITH EPILEPSY AND STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME, BUT WITHOUT TYPE 1 DIABETES (2010)
Epilepsia
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Hyaluronate receptor (CD44) and integrin α4 (CD49d) are up-regulated on T cells during MS relapses (2005)
Journal of Neuroimmunology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Molecular mechanisms regulating motor neuron development and degeneration (1999)
Molecular Neurobiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
New treatments for multiple sclerosis (1999)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Semliki Forest virus infection leads to increased expression of adhesion molecules on splenic T-cells and on brain vascular endothelium (1997)
Journal of NeuroVirology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Interferon-β downregulates expression of VLA-4 antigen and antagonizes interferon-γ-induced expression of HLA-DQ on human peripheral blood monocytes (1995)
Journal of Neuroimmunology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))