Group Members
Group leader
Hongbo Zhang, Tenure Track Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Åbo Akademi University
Email: hzhang [at] abo.fi
Contact information
Turku Bioscience P.O. Box 123, BioCity
(Street addr. Tykistökatu 6 B)
FIN-20521 Turku, Finland
Tel: +358 2 215 4141
Postdoctoral Researchers
Jixiang Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zhang Lab, Biocity 2nd floor

Doctoral Candidates

Oliver Koivisto
Doctoral Candidate
Zhang Lab


Yonghui Wang
Doctoral Candidate
Zhang Lab
Wenhui Zhou
Doctoral Candidate
Zhang Lab
Co-supervised Doctoral Candidates


Sepideh Parvanian
Doctoral Candidate
Eriksson Lab
sepideh.parvanian [at] bioscience.fi; sepideh.parvanian [at] abo.fiBackground
I received my Master’s degree in Genetic Engineering from the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Tehran, Iran) in 2013. I worked in the biopharmaceutical industry for six years in up-stream bioprocess and R&D, and also as an internal auditor and monoclonal antibody API supervisor. I came to Finland in March 2017 as a Research Assistant to work on vesicular compartments in bone-resorbing osteoclasts, as a member of the EU-funded EUROCLAST project (Marie Curie ESR) at the University of Turku. I joined Erikson's Lab in June 2018 as a PhD student. My research focuses on novel fundamental insights on the role of fibrotic-derived extracellular vesicles in myofibroblasts heterogeneity and mechanism of fibrosis.Research interests
• Extracellular Vesicles • Wound healing • Biopharmaceutical manufacturing
Undergraduate Students
Every year, we supervised 10 Master thesis work/summer student/project workers and we also provide lab training courses (5-15 credits based on working hours). We are open to host everyone who are interested with our projects.
Visiting Researchers
Prof. Sergey Filippov, Harvard, USA (2019-2020)
Assoc. Prof. Junnian Zhou, China (2019-2021)
Assoc. Prof. Yong Guo, China (2019-2020)
Assoc. Prof. Ye Liang, China (2019-2020)
Assoc. Prof. You Zhou, China (2019-2020)
Dr. Yulong Han, Harvard/MIT (2019-2020)
Dr. Pengpeng Yan, China (2019-2020)
Wanping He, Msc, China (2018-2019)
Alumni
Associate Prof. Ming Ma, China (2018)
Associate Prof. Yuezhou Zhang, China (2016-2018)
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)
Shahadat Hossain, Research Assistant (2017-2018)
Jing Tu, postdoc, the Netherlands/China (2017-2018)
Ibrahim Mamudu, ERASMUS student, Turkey (2017)
Bram Bogaert, MSc thesis worker, Ghent, Belgium (2017)