ABOUT

The research within this field is managed by the PIs of the four research groups at PSL. Currently, there are 10 post-doctoral fellows, 4 senior researchers, 15 PhD students and a varying number of visiting researchers and MSc students in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug Discovery & Development (UTU) and Biomedical Imaging (UTU & ÅAU) supervised by the PSL members.

The four research groups at PSL are the following:

• PharmaFabLab | Drug-Delivery and Pharmaceutical Technology | Coordinator: Prof. Niklas Sandler

• BioNanoMaterials | Coordinator: Prof. Jessica Rosenholm

• Computer-aided drug design | Coordinator: Prof. p.t. Outi Salo-Ahen

• Functional Biomaterials & Microfluids | Coordinator: Assist. Prof. Hongbo Zhang

Professors

Prof. Outi Salo-Ahen

Prof. Niklas Sandler

Prof. Jessica Rosenholm

Professor in Pharmaceutics (10%)

Chief Technology Officer at Nanoform

Pharmaceutical Development Pharmacy - Head of Discipline

Professor (pro tem) in Pharmacy Head of Education

Prof. Hongbo Zhang

Associate Professor in Drug Development and Diagnostics

Tel + 358 2 215 4837

email niklas.sandler@abo.fi

Tel + 358 2 215 3255

email jessica.rosenholm@abo.fi

Tel +358 2 215 4009

email outi.salo-ahen@abo.fi

Tel +358 2 215 4009

email hzhang@abo.fi

Dr. Kuldeep Bansal

Dr. Xiaoyu Xu

Dr. Jixiang Wang

Dr. Neeraj Prabhakar

Dr. Rajendra Bhadane

Dr. Yulong Han, Visiting Scholar from Harvard/MIT

Dr. You Zhou, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China (2019-2020)

Dr. Amit Rajora (2020)

Dr. Pengpeng Yan, Zhejiang University Hospital (2020-2020)

Dr. Parthiban Marimuthu

Visiting Assoc. Prof. Junnian Zhou, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China (2019-2021)

Visiting Assoc. Prof. Ye Liang, Qingdao University Hospital, Qingdao, China (2019-2020)

Visiting Assoc. Prof. Yong Guo, National Research Institute for Family Planning, Beijing, China (2019-2020)

Visiting Prof. Sergey Filippov, Harvard University, USA (2019-2020)

PhD Students

Rawand Abdulrahman, M.Sc. (Pharm.)

Ida Alanko, M.Sc. (Pharm.Sci.)

Wenhui Zhou, M.Med. 

Wali Inam, M.Sc. (Drug Discovery & Development)

Chang Liu, M.Sc. (Organic Chem.)

Johan Nyman, M.Sc.(Chem. Eng. & Pharm. Sci.)

Dhayakumar Rajan Prakash, M.Sc. (Nano. Med.)

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​Maria Rautamo, M.Pharm

Govardhanam Narayana Prakirth, M.Sc. (BIMA)

Atefeh Saadabadi, M.Sc.

Erica Sjöholm M.Sc.(Pharm.Sci)

Anna Slita, M.Sc.(Bio)

Henrika Wickström, M.Sc.(Pharm.Sci.)

​Heidi Öblom, M.Sc.(Pharm.Sci.)

Ezgi Özliseli, M.Sc. (BIMA)

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Docents

Mia Bengtström (Lääketeollisuus ry)

Pirjo Tajarobi (AstraZeneca)

Mervi Vasänge (OrionPharma)

Pia Vuorela (UniHelsinki)

Adyary Fallarero (ThermoFischer)

Outi Salo-Ahen (ÅAU)

Petri Ihalainen (MetGen)

Malena Skogman (UniHelsinki)

Tapani Viitala (UniHelsinki)

ÅAU Honorary Doctor & Adjunct Professor (Drug Development and Diagnostics)

Thomas Rades, University of Copenhagen

M.Sc. students

Various MSc students from our own Master's programme in bioscience with specialization pharmacy as well as from the joint MSc programme in Biomedical Imaging between University of Turku (UTU) and Åbo Akademi University as well as Drug Discovery and Development (UTU) take part in our activities.

Alumni & Visiting researchers

Current:

Akash James (UTU), summer intern (2020)

Niklas Salo (ÅAU Biosciences), summer student (2020)

Paulina Frolovaité, MSc thesis worker, UTU/ Bioinformatics MSc programme (2020-2021)

Sofia Lisina, visiting PhD student (Pharm.) SPCPU, Russia

Fadak Howaili,  visiting PhD student (Nanobiotechnology), Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (2019-2020)

Ville Järvinen (Physics), MSc thesis worker (2019-2020)

Rebecca Sandberg (Cell Biology),  MSc thesis worker (2019-2020)

Nazia Hassan, MSc thesis worker, UTU/Drug Disovery & Development MSc programme (2019-2020)

Ronja Hellman, MSc thesis worker (2019)

Lilly Holm, MSc thesis worker (2019)

​Oksana Terenteva, visiting PhD student, St Petersburg Chemical Pharmaceutical University, Russia (2019)

Wanping He, Msc thesis worker, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, China (2019-2020)

Oliver Koivisto, MSc thesis worker, UTU/genetics (2019)

Tzu-Chen Rautio, Msc thesis worker, UTU (2019-2020)

Dado Tokic, Msc thesis worker, UTU (2019-2020)

Doroteja Bednjanec, Msc thesis worker, ÅAU (2019-2020)

Deependra, Msc thesis worker, UTU (2019-2020)

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PhD Graduates (and their LinkedIn pages):

Olli Salin (2011)

Malena Skogman (2012)

Daniela Karlsson (2013)

Mohit Narwal (2014)

Didem Sen Karaman, PhD (2016)

Diti Desai, PhD (2016)

​Eva von Haartman, PhD (2017)

Mirja Palo (2017)

Suvi Manner (2017)

Hossein Vakili, PhD (2018)

Neeraj Prabhakar, PhD (2018)

Emrah Yildir, PhD (2018)

Tina Gulin-Sarfraz (2019)​

​Zehua Liu (co-supervised, 2019)
 

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Alumni:

Orhan Koçak, visiting PhD student (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey) (2020)

Dr. Berrin Küçüktürkmen, Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey (2019-2020)

Zala Kobentar, Erasmus student, Slovenia (2019)

Nina Hrvatic, Erasmus student, Slovenia (2019)

Nina Ravbar, Erasmus student, Slovenia (2019)

Maciej Izyk, Erasmus student, Poland (2019)

Dagmara Szynkiewicz, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland (2019)

Harri Heikkinen, MSc course Intership, UTU/Molecular system biology (2019)

Sami Sanlidag, BIMA intern & MSc thesis worker (2017-2019)​

Jiaqi Yan, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, China (2018-2019)

Laura Leenesonne, MSc thesis worker, Ghent University/Erasmus, Belgium (2019)​

Maren Preis, postdoc, Germany (2016-2019)

Jenny Henriksson, laboratory intern (cell biology) 2019

Annika Alander, laboratory intern (pharmacy) 2019

Zeynep Pamukcu, Erasmus+ trainee, Turkey (2019)

Tamara Somborac, MSc thesis worker, UTU/Drug Disovery & Development MSc programme (2018-2019)

Salim Baali, visiting PhD student, Algeria (2019)

Klara Kuret, MSc thesis worker (Erasmus student) (2019)

Julia Krebs, Master intership, Germany (2019)

​Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim, Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Egypt (2018-2019)

​​Abrar Taiseer, MSc thesis worker,  UTU/Drug Disovery & Development MSc programme (2018-2019)

Mariam Gouda, MSc thesis worker, UTU/Drug Disovery & Development MSc programme (2018-2019)

​Alexandra Manea, MSc thesis worker, UTU/Drug Disovery & Development MSc programme (2018-2019)

Dr. Ajay Verma, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of M.P./Smriti College of Pharmaceutical Education, India (2018-19)

Associate Professor Yuezhou Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (2017-2019)

Xiaodong Ma, Huaihai Technology University, China (2018-2019)

Johanna Wik, MSc thesis worker (2018-2019)

​Assoc. Prof. Ming Ma, China Academy of Science (2018)​

Marco Lago, MSc thesis worker, University of Padua, Italy (2018)

Tanzeela Bashir, Intership, Oulu University (2018)

Rukiye Nur Akpolat, Intership, Turkey (2018)

Minghua Yao, Tongji University Affiliated Hospital, China (2018)

Korbinian Weisensee, MSc thesis worker, Germany (2017-2018)

Severien Standaert, MSc thesis worker, Ghent University (2018)

Asst. prof. Yasuharu Kashiwagura, University of Shizuoka, Japan (2018)

Peiru Yang, Visiting MSc student, Jiangsu University Hospital, China (2017-2018)

Zahra Gounani, EDUFI fellowship, Iran (2017-2018)

Shahadat Hossain, Research Assistant (2017-2018)

Jing Tu, postdoc, the Netherlands/China (2017-2018)

Lisa Hanauer, Internship, Germany (2017)

Aleksandra Orłowska, ERASMUS student, Poland (2017)

Ibrahim Mamudu, ERASMUS student, Turkey (2017)

Azam Rashidian, MSc thesis worker, UTU (2017)

Jaakko Suominen, project researcher (2016-2017)

Kalaimathy Singaravelu, project assistant (2016-2017)

Jenny Holländer, University of Helsinki (2016-2017)

Helene Kettiger, postdoc, Switzerland       (Jan 2016 - June 2017)

Darya Demidenok, Visiting PhD student, Russia (2016-2017)

Bram Bogaert, MSc thesis worker, Ghent, Belgium (2017)

Aino Oisalo, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (2016-2017)

Jhinuk Rahman, Germany (2016-2017)

Meltem Guzelgulen, Ege university, Turkey (2017)

Arpita Paul, Erasmus trainee, Germany/India (2017)

Giorgia Patrignani, Erasmus trainee, Italy (2017)

Eudald Casals Mercadal, postdoc, Spain (Jan 2015 - Dec 2016)

Lingeshwar Reddy Kumbam, CIMO fellowship, India (2015-2016)

Victor Diaz, Erasmus trainee, Spain (2016)

Ines Pollmann, Graduate Research Intern, Germany (2016)

Anouk Broos, MSc student, Belgium (2016)

Paulina Przychodzeń, MSc student, Poland (2016)

Kübra Olagan, Erasmus trainee, Turkey (2016)

Sami Sanlidag, Turkey (Apr-May 2016)

Melahat Seda Aydin, Erasmus trainee, Turkey (2016)

Cecilia Antman, MSc, Project researcher (2016)

Yasmin Thabet, Germany (2016)

Koji Nakano, visiting PhD student, Japan (2015-2016)

Lingeshwar Reddy Kumbam, CIMO PhD student, India (2015-2016)

Anna Slita, Erasmus trainee, Russia (2015)

Magdalena Bigaj, Erasmus trainee, Poland (2015)

Ellen Hilgert, MSc student, Belgium (2015)

Josefa Ortiz, Erasmus trainee, Spain (2015) 

Kemal Cen Arat, Turkey (Aug-Sep 2015)

Natalja Genina, PhD, Project researcher (2011-2014)

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