Olli
Pentikäinen
Professor, Institute of Biomedicine
InFLAMES Flagship
PhD
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Areas of expertise
Computer-Dependent Drug Discovery
Molecular Modeling
Protein structure-function relationship
Protein-protein interaction
Biography
Education:
MSc in (organic) chemistry 1995 (University of Joensuu, Finland)
PhD in Biochemistry 2003 (Åbo Akademi University)
Adjunct Professor in Biochemistry 2005- (University of Turku)
Positions:
2017- Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (University of Turku) 8/2017
2011- Senior Lecturer in Cell and Molecular Biology (University of Jyväskylä)
2015 Visiting Senior Scientist (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
2005-2006 Visiting Senior Scientist (University of Bristol, UK)
1999-2005 Manager in Molecular Discovery (FBD Ltd)
Research
Our research focuses on discovery of efficient drug candidates and development of novel methods for that purpose. Especially our research on cancer drug targets that have been considered highly difficult, together with risk analysis of drug candidates, pave the road for safer drugs.
Publications
AMPA receptors and bacterial periplasmic amino acid-binding proteins share the ionic mechanism of ligand recognition (1998)
EMBO Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
AMPA receptors and bacterial periplasmic amino acid-binding proteins share the ionic mechanism of ligand recognition (1998)
EMBO Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The core domain of retrotransposon integrase in Hordeum: Predicted structure and evolution (1998)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))