Matej Oresic
Ph.D.
matej.oresic@utu.fi +358 29 450 3798 +358 46 923 3395 Tykistökatu 6 Turku |
Systems biology, exposome, bioinformatics, metabolomics, lipidomics, biophysics, systems medicine, computational biology
Professor Matej Orešič holds a PhD in biophysics from Cornell University (1999; Ithaca, NY, USA). He is professor of medicine, with specialization in systems medicine at Örebro University (Sweden) and a professor of biochemistry (metabolomics) at the University of Turku (Finland). Prof. Orešič’s main research areas include exposomics and metabolomics applications in biomedical research and systems medicine. He is particularly interested in the identification of environmental exposures (exposome) and disease processes associated with different metabolic phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms linking these processes with the development of specific disorders or their co-morbidities. Prof. Orešič also initiated the popular MZmine open-source project, which led to the development and release of popular software for metabolomics data processing. As of 2016, he was made a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society. Professor Orešič currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society and is one of the founders of the Nordic Metabolomics Society, previously serving as its chair of the board. In 2019, he co-chaired the 1st Gordon Research Conference on ‘Metabolomics and Human Health’ (Ventura, CA, USA). Previously, he also chaired the Keystone Symposium on Systems Biology of Lipid Metabolism (2015; Breckenridge, CO, USA). Professor Orešič currently coordinates Horizon Europe project “Inflammation in human early life: targeting impacts on life-course health – INITIALISE (https://initialise-project.eu/)”. He is also Co-Coordinator of the new Horizon Europe project “Investigation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as contributors to progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease – EDC-MASLD (https://edc-masld.eu/)”.
Professor Orešič’s main research areas include exposomics and metabolomics applications in biomedical research and systems medicine. He is particularly interested in the identification of environmental exposures (exposome) and disease processes associated with different metabolic phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms linking these processes with the development of specific disorders or their co-morbidities. Prof. Orešič also initiated the popular MZmine open-source project, which led to the development and release of popular software for metabolomics data processing. Professor Orešič currently coordinates Horizon Europe project “Inflammation in human early life: targeting impacts on life-course health – INITIALISE (https://initialise-project.eu/)”. He is also Co-Coordinator of the new Horizon Europe project “Investigation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as contributors to progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease – EDC-MASLD (https://edc-masld.eu/)”.
- (2015)
- Diabetologia
- Analytical Lipidomics in Metabolic and Clinical Research (2015)
- Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Bioactive lipids dissociate steatosis and insulin resistance in the human liver in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2015)
- Diabetologia
- Circulating triacylglycerol signatures and insulin sensitivity in NAFLD associated with the E167K variant in TM6SF2 (2015)
- Journal of Hepatology
- 2015
- Metabolomics
- Erratum to: Coordination of Standards in MetabOlomicS (COSMOS): facilitating integrated metabolomics data access (vol 11, pg 1587, 2015) (2015)
- MetabolomicsBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- (2015)
- Diabetes
- Optimizing the lipidomics workflow for clinical studies-practical considerations (2015)
- Analytical and Bioanalytical ChemistryPLoS ONE
- (2015)
- PLoS ONEDiabetes
- (2015)
- NeurocomputingProgress in Lipid Research
- Serum Lipid and Serum Metabolite Components in relation to anthropometric parameters in EPIC-Potsdam participantsCord Serum Lipidome in Prediction of Islet Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes2015
- MetabolismDiabetes
- (2015)
- Cell Host and MicrobeArteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
- 2015
- The influence of sample collection methodology and sample preprocessing on the blood metabolic profile (2015)
- Bioanalysis
- The Metabolome in Finnish Carriers of the MYBPC3-Q1061X Mutation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2015)
- Circulating Triacylglycerol Signatures in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Associated With the I148M Variant in PNPLA3 and With Obesity (2014)
- Systems biology strategies to study lipidomes in health and disease (2014)
- (2013)
- Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Lipidomic Profiling Highlights the Role of Inflammation in Individuals With Low High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (2013)
- Prediction of non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease and liver fat content by serum molecular lipids (2013)
- Diabetologia



