Research

About 400 cancer researchers work in the region of the Inner Finland Cancer Centre, most of whom belong to different research groups. Research groups at the University of Tampere, many of which also include researchers from Tampere University Hospital, are presented below.

Cancer Research Groups and Research Centres

MOPSY – Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Cancer Research Group
Anssi Auvinen – Cancer Epidemiology, Prostate Cancer Screening
G Steven Bova – PELICAN, Personalized Cancer Medicine
Kirsi Granberg – Cancer Regulation and Immunology
Vesa Hytönen – Protein Dynamics
Teemu Ihalainen – Cellular Biophysics
Arja Jukkola – Radiotherapy and oncology
Meenakshi Kandhavelu  –  Molecular Signaling Lab 
Xin Lai – Lailab
Johanna Laukkarinen – Tampere Pancreas Group
Terho Lehtimäki – Clinical Chemistry
Matti Lehtinen – HPV Vaccination Research
Olli Lohi – Hematology and Oncology
Teemu Murtola – Pharmacoepidemiology and Chemoprevention of Urological Cancers
Matti Nykter – Computational Biology
Niku Oksala – Surgery (especially Vascular Surgery)
Seppo Parkkila – Anatomy and Tissue Biology
Ilkka Pietilä – QPro3 (MOPSY)
Pekka Ruusuvuori – Bioimage Informatics
Olli Silvennoinen – Medical Biochemistry
Toni Seppälä – Precision Medicine in Abdominal Cancers
Tapio Visakorpi – Molecular Biology of Prostate Cancer
Teuvo Tammela – Surgery 
Alfonso Urbanucci – Genomic Regulation for Precision Cancer Medicine 
Minni Änkö – Functional RNAomics