Group Leader

Riitta Lahesmaa, Professor
Director, Turku Bioscience
riitta.lahesmaa [at] utu.fi
https://www.utu.fi/en/people/riitta-lahesmaa

Contact Information

Molecular Systems Immunology Group
Turku Bioscience
P.O. Box 123, BioCity
(Street adr. Tykistökatu 6 A, 7th floor)
FIN-20521 Turku, Finland
+358-40-718 4813 (Mobile)


News and Events

Doctoral researcher position in Riitta Lahesmaa group: The ImmuDocs Doctoral Education Pilot Call, Pathway 1 – Project #7: Changes in human immune cells associated with the development of type 1 diabetes

Project researcher/doctoral researcher position in Molecular Systems Immunology group

Postdoctoral researcher position in Molecular Systems Immunology group

The Sugar Science: Ask the Expert, Inna Starskaia

Scientists discover a novel modulator of human regulatory T cells


Group Members

Key Collaborations

Mark Ansel, University of California, San Francisco, US

Laura Elo, Turku Bioscience Centre

Sanjeev Galande, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, India

Mikael Knip, University of Helsinki

Alexander Marson, University of California, San Francisco, US

Satu Mustjoki, University of Helsinki

Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Partners of EU consortia INNODIA iVZW, HEDIMED, INITIALISE, EDENT1FI

Funding

The Academy of Finland, The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Breakthrough T1D, EU Horizon 2020, The Finnish Cancer Organizations, The Diabetes Foundation (Diabetessäätiö), The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Jane & Aatos Erkko Foundation, University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), The Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Swedish Cultural Foundation, The Sakari Alhopuro Foundation, University of Turku.

Other

Riitta Lahesmaa’s talk in international 17th IDS Congress 2020 (Immunology of Diabetes Congress) “Early detection of immune cell signatures in children developing beta-cell autoimmunity”

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