Mervi Toriseva
Ph.D.
mertor@utu.fi +358 29 450 2259 +358 50 470 3420 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-6282 |
FICAN West Cancer Centre, cancer biology; 3D organotypic cell culture models; ECM; FGF; high-content screening; phenotypic screening
I currently work as a research coordinator at Western Finland Cancer Centre FICAN West to support communication and interaction among the various units and experts within the research network. As a research coordinator, my role includes coordination and project management tasks in various translational research projects. I serve as the coordinator for the local Proexmet study and the National Expansion project of the iCAN flagship program focused on molecular profiling. Additionally, I work as a project manager for the regional iCAN-West biobank research project. Alongside these responsibilities, I am also in charge of collecting and reporting the data related to cancer research for FICAN West and Tyks Cancer Center, contributing to the Cancer Center's annual report and supporting OECI accreditation.
- Practical laboratory courses: Cell culture, Cancer biology in vitro, Medical biochemistry
- Lectures: High-content screening
- Practical training: Live-cell analysis using IncuCyte system
- Androgen receptor‐mediated regulation of BRCA1 modulates the antioxidant defense in prostate cancer (2025)
- Journal of Pathology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of Integrin Glycovariants as Biomarkers of Metastasis, Invasion, and Therapy Stratification in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (2025)
- Cancer Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessment of targeted therapy opportunities in sinonasal cancers using patient-derived functional tumor models (2024)
- Translational Oncology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ristiinmentorointi translationaalisen yhteistyön kehittäjänä syöpätutkimuksessa - mentorointiohjelman pilotoinnin kokemuksia Läntisessä Syöpäkeskuksessa (2024)
- Solubiologi
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Ristiinmentorointi verkostomaisen yhteistyön kehittäjänä : Tutkimushankkeen 2022-2024 loppuraportti (2024) Hiltunen, Riina; Karhu, Anna; Saarni, Jouni; Toriseva, Mervi; Vihinen, Pia; Siekkinen, Mervi; Paalumäki, Anni
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - RUNX transcription factors are essential in maintaining epididymal epithelial differentiation (2024)
- Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Notch inhibitor, FLI-06, increases the chemosensitivity of head and neck Squamous cell carcinoma cells to taxanes-based treatment (2024)
- Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of the anticancer activity of RIN-1, a Notch signaling modulator, in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2023)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Glucocorticoid receptor-induced non-muscle caldesmon regulates metastasis in castration-resistant prostate cancer (2023)
- Oncogenesis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of matrices on the gene expression profile of patient-derived head and neck carcinoma cells for in vitro therapy testing (2023)
- Cancer Cell International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



