Jorma Toppari
MD, PhD
jortop@utu.fi +358 29 450 2826 +358 40 180 2600 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : C5 floor |
Pediatric endocrinology; reproductive health; endocrine disruption; testis; type 1 diabetes
Professor Jorma Toppari (H-index 68) is an international expert in environmental endocrine disruption, male reproduction and type 1 diabetes. He is a principal investigator in a NIH-funded cohort study The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) and in the Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Study (DIPP). He is leading a joint Finnish-Danish birth cohort study exploring the genetic and environmental aspects of human reproduction.
The aim of our research is to identify risk factors of reproductive health and type 1 diabetes (T1D) to make risk management possible and prevent health problems. We are performing a comprehensive reproductive health study for 19-year-old men that we have followed up prospectively from pregnancy. We focus now our studies on sperm epigenome. We are studying the role of retinoblastoma protein (Rb) and E2F3 transcription factors in gonadal development and whether endocrine disruptors affect reproductive health. In the Finnish type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) study and in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study we are exploring the early determinants of T1D in large child cohorts with increased genetic risk.
Basic and clinical endocrinology, particularly pediatric and reproductive endocrinology, endocrine disruption, reproductive toxicology
- MYC is not detected in highly proliferating normal spermatogonia but is coupled with CIP2A in testicular cancers (2016)
- Matters
- Natural Development of Antibodies against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis Protein Antigens during the First 13 Years of Life (2016)
- Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
- Participant Experiences in the Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young Study: Common Reasons for Withdrawing (2016)
- Journal of Diabetes Research
- Reduced β-cell function in early preclinical type 1 diabetes (2016)
- European Journal of Endocrinology
- Reversion of beta-Cell Autoimmunity Changes Risk of Type 1 Diabetes: TEDDY Study (2016)
- Diabetes Care
- Semen quality improves marginally during young adulthood: a longitudinal follow-up study (2016)
- Human Reproduction
- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations in Children Progressing to Autoimmunity and Clinical Type 1 Diabetes (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Testicular Growth During Puberty in Boys With and Without a History of Congenital Cryptorchidism (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
- The Path Forward on Endocrine Disruptors Requires Focus on the Basics (2016)
- Toxicological Sciences
- The role of innate immunity in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
- Toward a multi-country monitoring system of reproductive health in the context of endocrine disrupting chemical exposure. (2016)
- European Journal of Public Health
- Trim37-deficient mice recapitulate several features of the multi-organ disorder Mulibrey nanism (2016)
- Biology Open
- Varicocele Is Associated with Impaired Semen Quality and Reproductive Hormone Levels: A Study of 7035 Healthy Young Men from Six European Countries. (2016)
- European Urology
- A detailed protocol for a rapid analysis of testicular cell populations using flow cytometry (2015)
- Andrology
- Age-associated DNA methylation changes in immune genes, histone modifiers and chromatin remodeling factors within 5 years after birth in human blood leukocytes (2015)
- Clinical Epigenetics
- Age at Gluten Introduction and Risk of Celiac Disease (2015)
- Pediatrics
- A method for reporting and classifying acute infectious diseases in a prospective study of young children: TEDDY (2015)
- BMC Pediatrics
- Antibodies to Deamidated Gliadin Peptide in Diagnosis of Celiac Disease in Children (2015)
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Association between levels of persistent organic pollutants in adipose tissue and cryptorchidism in early childhood: a case-control study (2015)
- Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
- B-Cell Responses to Human Bocaviruses 1-4: New Insights from a Childhood Follow-Up Study (2015)
- PLoS ONE



