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Faculty of Pharmacy

Units

The Drug Research Program comprises several different units, more than 35 research groups and a total of 220 researchers.

Drug Research Program Units

Viviana and Polina using a plate reader

Bioactivity Screening

Our research focuses on enhancing antimicrobial drug discovery – covering aspects from early target validation to detailed characterisation...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Pills and biomaterials are the result of the long drug development process. Photo by Newpix Photography.

Biopharmaceutics

Biopharmaceutics group research focuses on finding new biopharmaceutical solutions.

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: 96 well plates and reagents used to screen the drug activity on cancer cells. Photo by Newpix Photography

Cancer Unit for Research on Experimental Drugs

The Unit CURED aims to co-develop novel class of anti-cancer immunotherapy combining fundamental science on transcription factors and...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Drug delivery, a symbolic gesture. Bringing solutions from bench to bedside. Photo by Newpix Photography.

Drug Delivery

Our research focuses on drug delivery systems and related pharmacokinetics. The research profile includes design and testing of drug...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Lasers and control of light and magnetic fields allowed for the development of new technologies. Photo by Newpix Photography.

Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics

The research focus of the Mass spectrometry and metabolomics group involves the development of novel and more sensitive, selective and...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Rational design of drugs is essential to the development of novel therapies. Can you guess the molecule here? Photo by Newpix Photography.

Pharmaceutical Design and Discovery

The Pharmaceutical Design and Discovery Unit in the interface between chemistry, biology and pharmaceutical technology integrates a strong...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: A gold chip for Surface plasmon resonance. Photo by Newpix Photography.

Pharmaceutical Biophysics

Pharmaceutical research has fallen into a rut known as “Erooms Law”: while the resources expended increase exponentially the number of new...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Preclinical drug formulation and analysis unit.

Preclinical drug formulation and analysis group

We are a very multidisciplinary research group of life sciences and medical technology that comprises pharmacists, engineers, chemists,...

Drug Research Program, University of Helsinki: Small dishes are used to grow cells with specific culture conditions. Photo by Newpix Photography.

Regenerative Pharmacology

Regenerative Pharmacology group has its focus on novel drug targets and experimental drugs to reveal the basis of disease modifying...