Pekka Hänninen
Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Medical Physics and Engineering
Diagnostics and Bioimaging pekka.e.hanninen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2242 +358 40 765 1547 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : 7th floor For official inquiries use med-dekaani@utu.fi |
medical physics and engineering; bioimaging;
After MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Pekka Hänninen moved in 1988 to European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. In Heidelberg P.H. was a part of a team building confocal microscopes. In 1992 P.H. moved to Turku and to the team of Prof. Erkki Soini. Pekka's colleague Stefan Hell from Heidelberg followed early 1993 and the three gentlemen formed a team with distinct roles. Prof. Erkki Soini told Stefan and Pekka: "You guys take care of the science and I will get you funding".
The work of the team with resolution enhancement lead into several innovations in two-photon microscopy and super-resolution - work for which Stefan Hell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014. While Stefan went on with super-resolution and returned to Germany in 1997, PH together with prof. Erkki Soini concentrated on development of new in-vitro diagnostics system based on two-photon excitation.
In 2002 Pekka Hänninen took over the laboratory of Biophysics as Erkki Soini retired - and since 2005 he has been appointed as full professor of Medical Physics and Engineering. Currently Pekka Hänninen is also the vice-dean of the faculty and as of 1.8. 2019 the Dean.
Prof. Pekka Hänninen has a long experience in applied research that has also lead into industrial exploitation. The previous work related application of microscopy based detection methods to specific detection of microbes has lead into the birth of Arctic Diagnostics and their product MariPOC. The invention of fingerprinting technology has lead into commercialization of the ideas within industrial processes at a startup Aqsens Oy – and later on with Aqsens Health Oy and preventive health care in India. His background is in signal processing, electronic engineering and instrumentation and he has worked within instrumentally solving biological problems since his engagement to EMBL in 1988. Prof Hänninen has more than 20 patents majority of which have lead into industrial exploitation and products.
Prof. Pekka Hänninen is the responsible professor for International Masters Program in Biomedical Imaging. The program attracts science fascinated students from around the globe - more information can be found in http://www.bioimaging.fi
As PhD trainer, prof. Hänninen has guided more than 10 students with different backgrounds from engineering to chemistry through their PhD studies and scientific work.
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- A homogeneous single-label quenching resonance energy transfer assay for a delta-opioid receptor-ligand using intact cells (2013)
- Analyst
- Core-shell designs of photoluminescent nanodiamonds with porous silica coatings for bioimaging and drug delivery II – Application (2013)
- Nanoscale
- Fuzzy liquid analysis by an array of nonspecifically interacting reagents: The taste of fluorescence (2013)
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- High-throughput screening of colonization samples for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (2013)
- Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Luminescence stability improvement in liposome-based homogeneous luminescence resonance energy transfer (2013)
- Analytical Biochemistry
- Multiparametric Homogeneous Method for Identification of Ligand Binding to G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Receptor-Ligand Binding and beta-Arrestin Assay (2013)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Nonspecific particle-based method with two-photon excitation detection for sensitive protein quantification and cell counting (2013)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Protein quantification using resonance energy transfer between donor nanoparticles and acceptor quantum dots (2013)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Stable and highly fluorescent europium(III) chelates for time-resolved immunoassays. (2013)
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Method for estimation of protein isoelectric point (2012)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Sensitive luminometric method for protein quantification in bacterial cell lysate based on particle adsorption and dissociation of chelated europium (2012)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Sensitive method for determination of protein and cell concentrations based on competitive adsorption to nanoparticles and time-resolved luminescence resonance energy transfer between labeled proteins (2012)
- Analytical Chemistry
- A homogeneous single-label time-resolved fluorescence cAMP assay (2011)
- Journal of Biomolecular Screening
- Evaluation of the TPX MRSA assay for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (2011)
- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Glucose response of near-infrared alginate-based microsphere sensors under dynamic reversible conditions (2011)
- Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics
- High sensitivity luminescence nanoparticle assay for the detection of protein aggregation (2011)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Homogeneous Single-Label Biochemical Ras Activation Assay Using Time-Resolved Luminescence (2011)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Multiparametric luminescence method for quantitative cell surface protein expression analysis and imaging (2011)
- Journal of Immunological Methods
- Single-label time-resolved luminescence assay for estrogen receptor-ligand binding (2011)
- Analytical Biochemistry
- Time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay for C-reactive protein using colloidal semiconducting nanoparticles (2011)
- Sensors
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