MD, PhD, principal investigator
Juha received his MD degree from the University of Tampere in 2010 and defended his PhD thesis on novel regulators of JAK/STAT -signaling pathway from the laboratory of professor Olli Silvennoinen in 2012. In 2013 Juha joined laboratory of Dr. Michael J. Lenardo at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) as a post-doctoral fellow. His postdoc training concentrated on immunological tolerance in autoimmune diabetes and on defining the molecular mechanisms of novel inherited human immunological diseases.
After returning to Finland in the end of 2016, Juha joined the laboratory of Dr. Päivi Saavalainen at University of Helsinki and started his residency in pediatrics at HUS Helsinki University hospital. In 2019 he received the PI status from University of Helsinki. Currently, Juha is working as a university researher combining both clinical medicine at New Children’s hospital, department of pediatric hemato-oncology and translational research in the field of immunology.
PhD, postdoctoral researcher
Msc student
PhD student
Kim is a shared PhD student with docent Mikko Seppänen.
Erasmus student
PhD, senior postdoc