Pasi Virta
Professor
pamavi@utu.fi +358 29 450 3209 +358 50 328 5719 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6218-2212 |
Areas of expertise
Synthesis of oligonucleotide, peptide nucleic acid, peptide (including antibodies) and carbohydrate conjugates, Drug delivery strategies of oligonucleotides, mechanistic studies of higher order secondary structures of nucleic acids, 19F NMR spectroscopy, DNA-templated synthesis, aqueous glycosylation
Synthesis of oligonucleotide, peptide nucleic acid, peptide (including antibodies) and carbohydrate conjugates, Drug delivery strategies of oligonucleotides, mechanistic studies of higher order secondary structures of nucleic acids, 19F NMR spectroscopy, DNA-templated synthesis, aqueous glycosylation
Publications
- Formation and cellular uptake of Bleomycin saccharide decorated molecular spherical nucleic acids evaluated by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (2026)
- Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Synthesis and Characterization of Glyco‐Decorated Silsesquioxane‐Metallosalen Complexes (2026)
- ChemistrySelect
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Toward a sustainable protection group approach for solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing 5′-O-(2-methoxyisopropyl) protection (2026)
- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Biological Evaluation of Molecular Spherical Nucleic Acids: Targeting Tumors via a Hybridization-Based Folate Decoration (2025)
- ACS Omega
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - From liquid-phase synthesis to chemical ligation: preparation of oligonucleotides and their backbone analogs in solution (2025)
- Nucleic Acids Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Oligonukleotidilääkkeiden rakennekemialliset ja farmakologiset ominaisuudet (2025)
- Duodecim
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Post-SELEX modification of quinine aptamers through neoacetalization (2025)
- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Selective Acetalization in Pyridine: A Sustainable 5′-O-(2-Methoxypropyl) Protecting Group in the Synthesis of Nucleic Acid Analogs (2025)
- Organic Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Impact of Secondary Structure on the Base-Filling of N-Methoxy-1,3-Oxazinane (MOANA) and N-Methoxy-1,3-Oxazolidine Glycol Nucleic Acid (MOGNA) Oligonucleotides (2025)
- ChemBioChem
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Chondroitin Sulfate-Coated Heteroduplex-Molecular Spherical Nucleic Acids (2024)
- ChemBioChem
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



