Jonna Alanko has received the Young Investigator Award of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology. The award is given for high-quality immunological research and promotion of the field of immunology.

Jonna Alanko is an Academy Research Fellow and a group leader at Turku Bioscience Centre. Alanko and her Immune Cell Navigation group are studying how immune cells, and especially dendritic cells, migrate and navigate along different molecular cues.

“We focus on dendritic cells – the immune system’s fast-moving messengers – and the chemical signals called chemokines that guide them. Efficient, directional dendritic cell migration is critically important for human health and defects have been linked to various autoimmune diseases,” Alanko says.

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