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Research at the Institute of Biomedicine

Research at the Institute of Biomedicine is divided into three functional units: 1) Infection and Immunity, 2) Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology and 3) Cancer research. Research at our Institute includes both biomedical basic research and translational research, and the unit division expresses our research priorities.

We encourage creative interdisciplinary combination of research topics via collaboration of the individual research groups and the three units. In addition, we collaborate locally with clinical researchers, with other institutes of our university and with the Åbo Akademi University. We are also widely networked with numerous national and international universities and public and private research institutes.

Recent publications

A platform for efficient establishment and drug-response profiling of high-grade serous ovarian cancer organoids (2023)

Developmental Cell
Senkowski Wojciech., Gall-Mas Laura, Falco Matias Marin, Li Yilin, Lavikka Kari, Kriegbaum Mette C., Oikkonen Jaana, Bulanova Daria, Pietras Elin J., Voßgröne Karolin, Chen Yan Jun., Erkan Erdogan Pekcan, Dai Jun, Lundgren Anastasia, Grønning Høg Mia Kristine, Larsen Ida Marie, Lamminen Tarja, Kaipio Katja, Huvila Jutta, Virtanen Anni, Engelholm Lars, Christiansen Pernille, Santoni-Rugiu Eric, Huhtinen Kaisa, Carpén Olli, Hynninen Johanna, Hautaniemi Sampsa, Vähärautio Anna, Wennerberg Krister
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants (2023)

Nature Genetics
Wang A., Shen J., Rodriguez A.A., Saunders E.J., Chen F., Janivara R., Darst B.F., Sheng X., Xu Y., Chou A.J., Benlloch S., Dadaev T., Brook M.N., Plym A., Sahimi A., Hoffman T.J., Takahashi A., Matsuda K., Momozawa Y., Fujita M., Laisk T., Figuerêdo J., Muir K., Ito S., Liu X., Yamanashi Y., Furukawa Y., Morisaki T., Murakami Y., Muto K., Nagai A., Obara W., Yamaji K., Takahashi K., Asai S., Takahashi Y., Suzuki T., Sinozaki N., Yamaguchi H., Minami S., Murayama S., Yoshimori K., Nagayama S., Obata D., Higashiyama M., Masumoto A., Koretsune Y., Uchio Y., Kubo M., Kamatani Y., Lophatananon A., Wan P., Andrews C., Lori A., Choudhury P.P., Schleutker J., Tammela T.L.J., Sipeky C., Auvinen A., Giles G.G., Southey M.C., MacInnis R.J., Cybulski C., Wokolorczyk D., Lubinski J., Rentsch C.T., Cho K., Mcmahon B.H., Neal D.E., Donovan J.L., Hamdy F.C., Martin R.M., Nordestgaard B.G., Nielsen S.F., Weischer M., Bojesen S.E., Røder A., Stroomberg H.V., Batra J., Chambers S., Horvath L., Clements J.A., Tilly W., Risbridger G.P., Gronberg H., Aly M., Szulkin R., Eklund M., Nordstrom T., Pashayan N., Dunning A.M., Ghoussaini M., Travis R.C., Key T.J., Riboli E., Park J.Y., Sellers T.A., Lin H.Y., Albanes D., Weinstein S., Cook M.B., Mucci L.A., Giovannucci E., Lindstrom S., Kraft P., Hunter D.J., Penney K.L., Turman C., Tangen C.M., Goodman P.J., Thompson I.M., Hamilton R.J., Fleshner N.E., Finelli A., Parent M.É., Stanford J.L., Ostrander E.A., Koutros S., Beane Freeman L.E., Stampfer M., Wolk A., Håkansson N., Andriole G.L., Hoover R.N., Machiela M.J., Sørensen K.D., Borre M., Blot W.J., Zheng W., Yeboah E.D., Mensah J.E., Lu Y.J., Zhang H.W., Feng N., Mao X., Wu Y., Zhao S.C., Sun Z., Thibodeau S.N., McDonnell S.K., Schaid D.J., West C.M.L., Barnett G., Maier C., Schnoeller T., Luedeke M., Kibel A.S., Drake B.F., Cussenot O., Cancel-Tassin G., Menegaux F., Truong T., Koudou Y.A., John E.M., Grindedal E.M., Maehle L., Khaw K.T., Ingles S.A., Stern M.C., Vega A., Gómez-Caamaño A., Fachal L., Rosenstein B.S., Kerns S.L., Ostrer H., Teixeira M.R., Paulo P., Brandão A., Watya S., Lubwama A., Bensen J.T., Butler E.N., Mohler J.L., Taylor J.A., Kogevinas M., Dierssen-Sotos T., Castaño-Vinyals G., Cannon-Albright L., Teerlink C.C., Huff C.D., Pilie P., Yu Y., Bohlender R.J., Gu J., Strom S.S., Multigner L., Blanchet P., Brureau L., Kaneva R., Slavov C., Mitev V., Leach R.J., Brenner H., Chen X., Holleczek B., Schöttker B., Klein E.A., Hsing A.W., Kittles R.A., Murphy A.B., Logothetis C.J., Kim J., Neuhausen S.L., Steele L., Ding Y.C., Isaacs W.B., Nemesure B., Hennis A.J.M., Carpten J., Pandha H., Michael A., De Ruyck K., De Meerleer G., Ost P., Xu J., Razack A., Lim J., Teo S.H., Newcomb L.F., Lin D.W., Fowke J.H., Neslund-Dudas C.M., Rybicki B.A., Gamulin M., Lessel D., Kulis T., Usmani N., Abraham A., Singhal S., Parliament M., Claessens F., Joniau S., Van den Broeck T., Gago-Dominguez M., Castelao J.E., Martinez M.E., Larkin S., Townsend P.A., Aukim-Hastie C., Bush W.S., Aldrich M.C., Crawford D.C., Srivastava S., Cullen J., Petrovics G., Casey G., Wang Y., Tettey Y., Lachance J., Tang W., Biritwum R.B., Adjei A.A., Tay E., Truelove A., Niwa S., Yamoah K., Govindasami K., Chokkalingam A.P., Keaton J.M., Hellwege J.N., Clark P.E., Jalloh M., Gueye S.M., Niang L., Ogunbiyi O., Shittu O., Amodu O., Adebiyi A.O., Aisuodionoe-Shadrach O.I., Ajibola H.O., Jamda M.A., Oluwole O.P., Nwegbu M., Adusei B., Mante S., Darkwa-Abrahams A., Diop H., Gundell S.M., Roobol M.J., Jenster G., van Schaik R.H.N., Hu J.J., Sanderson M., Kachuri L., Varma R., McKean-Cowdin R., Torres M., Preuss M.H., Loos R.J.F., Zawistowski M., Zöllner S., Lu Z., Van Den Eeden S.K., Easton D.F., Ambs S., Edwards T.L., Mägi R., Rebbeck T.R., Fritsche L., Chanock S.J., Berndt S.I., Wiklund F., Nakagawa H., Witte J.S., Gaziano J.M., Justice A.C., Mancuso N., Terao C., Eeles R.A., Kote-Jarai Z., Madduri R.K., Conti D.V., Haiman C.A.
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

Recent doctoral dissertations

A platform for efficient establishment and drug-response profiling of high-grade serous ovarian cancer organoids (2023)

Developmental Cell
Senkowski Wojciech., Gall-Mas Laura, Falco Matias Marin, Li Yilin, Lavikka Kari, Kriegbaum Mette C., Oikkonen Jaana, Bulanova Daria, Pietras Elin J., Voßgröne Karolin, Chen Yan Jun., Erkan Erdogan Pekcan, Dai Jun, Lundgren Anastasia, Grønning Høg Mia Kristine, Larsen Ida Marie, Lamminen Tarja, Kaipio Katja, Huvila Jutta, Virtanen Anni, Engelholm Lars, Christiansen Pernille, Santoni-Rugiu Eric, Huhtinen Kaisa, Carpén Olli, Hynninen Johanna, Hautaniemi Sampsa, Vähärautio Anna, Wennerberg Krister
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants (2023)

Nature Genetics
Wang A., Shen J., Rodriguez A.A., Saunders E.J., Chen F., Janivara R., Darst B.F., Sheng X., Xu Y., Chou A.J., Benlloch S., Dadaev T., Brook M.N., Plym A., Sahimi A., Hoffman T.J., Takahashi A., Matsuda K., Momozawa Y., Fujita M., Laisk T., Figuerêdo J., Muir K., Ito S., Liu X., Yamanashi Y., Furukawa Y., Morisaki T., Murakami Y., Muto K., Nagai A., Obara W., Yamaji K., Takahashi K., Asai S., Takahashi Y., Suzuki T., Sinozaki N., Yamaguchi H., Minami S., Murayama S., Yoshimori K., Nagayama S., Obata D., Higashiyama M., Masumoto A., Koretsune Y., Uchio Y., Kubo M., Kamatani Y., Lophatananon A., Wan P., Andrews C., Lori A., Choudhury P.P., Schleutker J., Tammela T.L.J., Sipeky C., Auvinen A., Giles G.G., Southey M.C., MacInnis R.J., Cybulski C., Wokolorczyk D., Lubinski J., Rentsch C.T., Cho K., Mcmahon B.H., Neal D.E., Donovan J.L., Hamdy F.C., Martin R.M., Nordestgaard B.G., Nielsen S.F., Weischer M., Bojesen S.E., Røder A., Stroomberg H.V., Batra J., Chambers S., Horvath L., Clements J.A., Tilly W., Risbridger G.P., Gronberg H., Aly M., Szulkin R., Eklund M., Nordstrom T., Pashayan N., Dunning A.M., Ghoussaini M., Travis R.C., Key T.J., Riboli E., Park J.Y., Sellers T.A., Lin H.Y., Albanes D., Weinstein S., Cook M.B., Mucci L.A., Giovannucci E., Lindstrom S., Kraft P., Hunter D.J., Penney K.L., Turman C., Tangen C.M., Goodman P.J., Thompson I.M., Hamilton R.J., Fleshner N.E., Finelli A., Parent M.É., Stanford J.L., Ostrander E.A., Koutros S., Beane Freeman L.E., Stampfer M., Wolk A., Håkansson N., Andriole G.L., Hoover R.N., Machiela M.J., Sørensen K.D., Borre M., Blot W.J., Zheng W., Yeboah E.D., Mensah J.E., Lu Y.J., Zhang H.W., Feng N., Mao X., Wu Y., Zhao S.C., Sun Z., Thibodeau S.N., McDonnell S.K., Schaid D.J., West C.M.L., Barnett G., Maier C., Schnoeller T., Luedeke M., Kibel A.S., Drake B.F., Cussenot O., Cancel-Tassin G., Menegaux F., Truong T., Koudou Y.A., John E.M., Grindedal E.M., Maehle L., Khaw K.T., Ingles S.A., Stern M.C., Vega A., Gómez-Caamaño A., Fachal L., Rosenstein B.S., Kerns S.L., Ostrer H., Teixeira M.R., Paulo P., Brandão A., Watya S., Lubwama A., Bensen J.T., Butler E.N., Mohler J.L., Taylor J.A., Kogevinas M., Dierssen-Sotos T., Castaño-Vinyals G., Cannon-Albright L., Teerlink C.C., Huff C.D., Pilie P., Yu Y., Bohlender R.J., Gu J., Strom S.S., Multigner L., Blanchet P., Brureau L., Kaneva R., Slavov C., Mitev V., Leach R.J., Brenner H., Chen X., Holleczek B., Schöttker B., Klein E.A., Hsing A.W., Kittles R.A., Murphy A.B., Logothetis C.J., Kim J., Neuhausen S.L., Steele L., Ding Y.C., Isaacs W.B., Nemesure B., Hennis A.J.M., Carpten J., Pandha H., Michael A., De Ruyck K., De Meerleer G., Ost P., Xu J., Razack A., Lim J., Teo S.H., Newcomb L.F., Lin D.W., Fowke J.H., Neslund-Dudas C.M., Rybicki B.A., Gamulin M., Lessel D., Kulis T., Usmani N., Abraham A., Singhal S., Parliament M., Claessens F., Joniau S., Van den Broeck T., Gago-Dominguez M., Castelao J.E., Martinez M.E., Larkin S., Townsend P.A., Aukim-Hastie C., Bush W.S., Aldrich M.C., Crawford D.C., Srivastava S., Cullen J., Petrovics G., Casey G., Wang Y., Tettey Y., Lachance J., Tang W., Biritwum R.B., Adjei A.A., Tay E., Truelove A., Niwa S., Yamoah K., Govindasami K., Chokkalingam A.P., Keaton J.M., Hellwege J.N., Clark P.E., Jalloh M., Gueye S.M., Niang L., Ogunbiyi O., Shittu O., Amodu O., Adebiyi A.O., Aisuodionoe-Shadrach O.I., Ajibola H.O., Jamda M.A., Oluwole O.P., Nwegbu M., Adusei B., Mante S., Darkwa-Abrahams A., Diop H., Gundell S.M., Roobol M.J., Jenster G., van Schaik R.H.N., Hu J.J., Sanderson M., Kachuri L., Varma R., McKean-Cowdin R., Torres M., Preuss M.H., Loos R.J.F., Zawistowski M., Zöllner S., Lu Z., Van Den Eeden S.K., Easton D.F., Ambs S., Edwards T.L., Mägi R., Rebbeck T.R., Fritsche L., Chanock S.J., Berndt S.I., Wiklund F., Nakagawa H., Witte J.S., Gaziano J.M., Justice A.C., Mancuso N., Terao C., Eeles R.A., Kote-Jarai Z., Madduri R.K., Conti D.V., Haiman C.A.
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))