People working in the Gastrointestinal tumorigenesis group
Ari Ristimäki, Professor, PI
MD, PhD, Principal Investigator
Professor of Pathology
Pirjo Nummela, Lab chief
PhD, Senior Researcher
PhD in Biochemistry/Cancer Biology, University of Helsinki 2011
Iiris Ukkola, Postdoc
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, University of Helsinki 2024
MD, Pathologist
Aparna Ganesan, PhD student
Doctoral Researcher in the iCANDOC National Doctoral Education Pilot in Precision Cancer Medicine
MPhil in Biochemistry, University of Madras, India
Jenni Lainio, Researcher
MSc in Bioscience and Biochemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 2024
Merja Haukka, Laboratory technician
Johanna Koskinen, Summer student
MD student
Alumni
- Heini Nieminen, MD, PhD thesis 2026
- Erika Veikkolainen, MSc thesis 2025
- Sadia Zafar, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow 2021-24
- Matilda Holm, PhD thesis 2021
- Vincenzo Cinella, visiting MSc student from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
- Alexandra Thiel, PhD student and Postdoctoral fellow, 2003-16 (PhD thesis 2012)
- Lilli Saarinen, PhD student 2014-16
- Susanna Tarkiainen, MSc thesis 2018
- Helena Ahola, Technician, Lab manager, retired 2013
- Mira Heinonen, PhD thesis 2011
- Camilla Böckelmann, MD, PhD thesis 2012
- Johanna Mrena, MD, PhD thesis 2011
- Tuija Hallikainen, Technician, Lab manager
- Kirsi Narko, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow
- Bastiaan van Rees, MD, PhD, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam (Shared supervisor responsibility with Prof. Johan Offerhaus, AMC) (PhD thesis 2002)
- Kirsi Saukkonen, MSc thesis 1997, PhD thesis 2003
- Tiina-Liisa Erkinheimo, MD, PhD thesis 2005
- Anna Sivula, PhD thesis 2005
- Leena Laitinen, MD (1998)
- Kirsi Orasaari, MD (1998)
- Maureen Terlaak, MSc (1998)
- Susa Vilkki, MSc (2000)
- Johanna Rintahaka, MSc (2003)
- Leena Pohjola, MSc (2003)