Group members

PI

DDS, PhD, Professor of Oral Pathology 

tuula.salo@helsinki.fi

DDS, PhD, Adjunct Professor

Supervisor for Doctoral Programme in Oral Sciences (FINDOS)

Supervisor for Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (KLTO)

Abdelhakim.Salem@helsinki.fi

PhD student, MSc

My work focuses on developing representative in vitro methods for the high-throughput drug screening and personalized cancer medicine by providing a fully human tumor-based matrix for cancer cells.

katja.tuomainen@helsinki.fi

Phd Student, DDS 

I am investigating immune therapies involving immune checkpoints and their prognostic relevance in oral cancer. My aim in research is to help ongoing clinical trials to improve immune checkpoint related therapies.

meri.sievilainen@helsinki.fi

PhD student, Laboratory coordinator, MSc

My research revolves around three-dimensional (3D) in vitro modeling. My work aims to develope novel methods and materials for drug development and for studying cancer growth and behaviour in vitro.

erika.naakka@helsinki.fi

Programmer/Data consulting

As part of my long-term goal, I wish to contribute and pursue my career in the field involving mathematical and computational approaches to analyze biological data.

ilida.suleymanova@helsinki.fi

PhD Student

I am a PhD candidate and my thesis project is Identification of simple and valuable prognostic markers for oral cancer.

awais.wahab@helsinki.fi

Alumni Laboratory Technician