Profiles in Science - June 24, 2024
Exclusive interview: Jens Juul Holst
His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are.
Profiles in Science - June 18, 2024
“I would like to push the field of cell therapy forward”
Anna Falk, Head of Lund University’s Center for Advanced Therapies (LU-ATMP) and principal researcher of the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI) shares insights into her research, her multi-faceted job, and her vision for the future of neuroscience. Anna Falk is a molecular biologist with a PhD in neural stem cells and adult neurogenesis. […]
Profiles in Science - February 6, 2020
Making the invisible visible
Professor Ed Boyden has developed expansion microscopy, but his research expands beyond this discovery, for example into the exciting field of optogenetics.
Profiles in Science - March 8, 2017
“My basic personality is more like a discoverer”
Sirpa Jalkanen is a professor in the Academy of Finland, board member of Orion, and cofounder of BioTie Therapies and Faron Pharmaceuticals. BioTie Therapies and Faron Pharmaceuticals develop drugs for inflammation and immune-related conditions. In 2016, BioTie was acquired by Acorda Therapeutics. How did you turn basic research findings into companies? “When we returned from […]
Profiles in Science - December 26, 2015
Jaakko Kaprio
Ensuring the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) continues to lead at home in the molecular medicine field and grows in international prominence are among the goals of FIMM’s new director Dr. Jaakko Kaprio. “Molecular medicine is evolving rapidly and we need an institute in Finland that is at the forefront of the area of […]
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2013
Randy Schekman: From dreams to yeast
Randy Schekman’s discoveries using yeast to determine the movement of vesicles brought his Nobel Prize dreams to life.
