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Matej
Oresic
Professor, Turku Bioscience Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
Ph.D.

Contact

+358 29 450 3798
+358 46 923 3395
Tykistökatu 6
20520
Turku

Areas of expertise

Systems biology
bioinformatics
metabolomics
lipidomics
biophysics
systems medicine
computational biology

Biography

Professor Matej Orešič holds a PhD in biophysics from Cornell University. He is Professor of Medical Sciences with Specialization in Systems Medicine at School of Medical Sciences (Örebro University, Sweden), Group Leader in Systems Medicine at the Turku Bioscience Centre (University of Turku, Finland), and Guest Professor at the Oil Crops Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Wuhan, PR China). His main research areas are metabolomics applications in biomedical research and integrative bioinformatics. He is particularly interested in the identification of disease vulnerabilities associated with different metabolic phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms linking these vulnerabilities with the development of specific disorders or their co-morbidities, with specific focus on obesity and diabetes and their co-morbidities. Dr. Orešič has also initiated the popular MZmine open source project, leading to popular software for metabolomics data processing. Previosuly, Dr. Orešič was principal investigator at Steno Diabetes Center (Gentofte, Denmark), research professor at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Espoo, Finland), head of computational biology and modeling at Beyond Genomics, Inc. (Waltham/MA) and bioinformatician at LION Bioscience Research in Cambridge/MA. In 2016, Dr. Oresic received the Lifetime Honorary Fellow award from the Metabolomics Society.

Research

Our main research area is systems medicine, particularly metabolomics applications in biomedical research and related integrative bioinformatics. Specifically, we am particularly interested in the identification of disease vulnerabilities associated with different metabolic phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms linking these vulnerabilities with the development of specific disorders or their co-morbidities. Such in depth understanding of the metabolic phenotypes in health and disease is crucial if one is to implement personalized medicine. Dr. Orešič initiated the popular MZmine open source project, leading to popular software for metabolomics data processing. Main ongoing projects: Strategic Research Agreement, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (9/2016-9/2018): Metabolomic and Proteomic markers staging progression to type 1 diabetes in autoantibody positive children – PI Strategic Research Agreement, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (9/2016-9/2018): Mother-infant interactions in relation to potential biomarkers of beta-cell autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes – PI Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Molecular Systems Immunology and Physiology Research (2012-2017) - PI Strategic Research Agreement, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Integrative multi-omic study of early progression to type 1 diabetes; 2014-2017) - PI pHealth Programme, multi-PI collaborative project, Academy of Finland (Personalised medicine to predict and prevent Type 1 Diabetes; 9/2015-8/2019) – Co-PI EU H2020 EPoS (Elucidating Pathways of Steatohepatitis) - Workpackage leader EU FP7 METSY (Integrated neuroimaging and metabolic platform for characterisation of early psychosis and prediction of patient outcomes) - Coordinator

Publications

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A Healthy Nordic Diet Alters the Plasma Lipidomic Profile in Adults with Features of Metabolic Syndrome in a Multicenter Randomized Dietary Intervention (2016)

Journal of Nutrition
Lankinen M, Schwab U, Kolehmainen M, Paananen J, Nygren H, Seppanen-Laakso T, Poutanen K, Hyotylainen T, Riserus U, Savolainen MJ, Hukkanen J, Brader L, Marklund M, Rosqvist F, Hermansen K, Cloetens L, Onning G, Thorsdottir I, Gunnarsdottir I, Akesson B, Dragsted LO, Uusitupa M, Oresic M
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Self-organization and missing values in SOM and GTM (2015)

Neurocomputing
T. Vatanen, M. Osmala, T. Raiko, K. Lagus, M. Sysi-Aho, M. Orešič, T. Honkela, H. Lähdesmäki
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

COordination of Standards in MetabOlomicS (COSMOS): facilitating integrated metabolomics data access (2015)

Metabolomics
Reza M. Salek, Steffen Neumann, Daniel Schober, Jan Hummel, Kenny Billiau, Joachim Kopka, Elon Correa, Theo Reijmers, Antonio Rosato, Leonardo Tenori, Paola Turano, Silvia Marin, Catherine Deborde, Daniel Jacob, Dominique Rolin, Benjamin Dartigues, Pablo Conesa, Kenneth Haug, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Steve O’Hagan, Jie Hao, Michael van Vliet, Marko Sysi-Aho, Christian Ludwig, Jildau Bouwman, Marta Cascante, Timothy Ebbels, Julian L. Griffin, Annick Moing, Macha Nikolski, Matej Oresic, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Mark R. Viant, Royston Goodacre, Ulrich L. Günther, Thomas Hankemeier, Claudio Luchinat, Dirk Walther, Christoph Steinbeck
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))