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
- CIP2A is an Oct4 target gene involved in head and neck squamous cell cancer oncogenicity and radioresistance (2015)
- Oncotarget
- Clinical features of celiac disease: a prospective birth cohort. (2015)
- Pediatrics
- Cryptorchidism and Fertility (2015)
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
- DICER Regulates the Formation and Maintenance of Cell-Cell Junctions in the Mouse Seminiferous Epithelium. (2015)
- Biology of Reproduction
- E2F1 controls germ cell apoptosis during the first wave of spermatogenesis (2015)
- Andrology
- Early Childhood Gut Microbiomes Show Strong Geographic Differences Among Subjects at High Risk for Type 1 Diabetes (2015)
- Diabetes Care
- EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (2015)
- Endocrine Reviews
- Executive Summary to EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals. (2015)
- Endocrine Reviews
- GATA4 Is a Key Regulator of Steroidogenesis and Glycolysis in Mouse Leydig Cells (2015)
- Endocrinology
- Influenza A virus antibodies show no association with pancreatic islet autoantibodies in children genetically predisposed to type 1 diabetes (2015)
- Diabetologia
- Life-Long Implications of Developmental Exposure to Environmental Stressors: New Perspectives (2015)
- Endocrinology
- Male Reproductive Disorders, Diseases, and Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union (2015)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Manufacturing doubt about endocrine disrupter science - A rebuttal of industry-sponsored critical comments on the UNEP/WHO report "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012" (2015)
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
- Non-HLA gene effects on the disease process of type 1 diabetes: From HLA susceptibility to overt disease (2015)
- Journal of Autoimmunity
- Predictors of Progression From the Appearance of Islet Autoantibodies to Early Childhood Diabetes: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) (2015)
- Diabetes Care
- Retromer vesicles interact with RNA granules in haploid male germ cells (2015)
- Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
- Role of Type 1 diabetes associated SNPs on risk of autoantibody positivity in the TEDDY Study (2015)
- Diabetes
- Serum Proteomes Distinguish Children Developing Type 1 Diabetes in a Cohort With HLA-Conferred Susceptibility (2015)
- Diabetes
- The 6 year incidence of diabetes-associated autoantibodies in genetically at-risk children: the TEDDY study (2015)
- Diabetologia
- Alcohol and male reproductive health: a cross-sectional study of 8344 healthy men from Europe and the USA. (2014)
- Human Reproduction



