Postdoctoral Researchers

Jixiang Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zhang Lab, Biocity 2nd floor

Xiaoyu Xu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zhang Lab, Biocity 2nd floor

xiaoyu.xu [at] abo.fi

Doctoral Candidates

Wali Inam

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

wali.inam [at] abo.fi

Oliver Koivisto

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

Chang Liu

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

chang.liu [at] abo.fi

Xiaodong Ma

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab, Biocity 2nd floor

xiaodong.ma [at] abo.fi

Dhayakumar Prakash

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

drajanpr [at] abo.fi

Yonghui Wang

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

Jiaqi Yan

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

jiaqi.yan [at] abo.fi

Wenhui Zhou

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

Co-supervised Doctoral Candidates

Marco Mennillo

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

marco.mennill [at] abo.fi

Sepideh Parvanian

Doctoral Candidate

Eriksson Lab

sepideh.parvanian [at] bioscience.fi; sepideh.parvanian [at] abo.fi

Background

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

Diosangeles Soto Veliz

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

diosangeles.sotoveliz [at] abo.fi

Feng Zhang

Doctoral Candidate

Zhang Lab

feng.zhang [at] helsinki.fi

Undergraduate Students

Every year, we supervised 5+ 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 (2019-2021)

Alumni

Assoc. Prof. Junnian Zhou, China (2019-2021)

Assoc. Prof. Yong Guo, China (2019-2021)

Assoc. Prof. Ye Liang, China (2019-2020)

Assoc. Prof. You Zhou, China (2019-2020)

Dr. Yulong Han, Harvard/MIT (2019-2020)

Tzu-Chen Rautio, MSc thesis worker, UTU (2019-2021)

Doroteja Bednjanec, MSc thesis worker, ÅAU (2019-2021)

Deependra Yadav, MSc thesis worker, UTU (2019-2021)

Dado Tokic, MSc thesis worker, UTU/Drug Disovery & Development (2019-2020)

Wanping He, Msc, China (2018-2019)

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

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)

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