Kari Kalliokoski
PhD, MSc
kari.kalliokoski@utu.fi +358 29 450 2789 +358 40 514 5437 Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-7126 |
Positron Emission Tomography, project planning, project management, project budgeting, exercise physiology, metabolism, skeletal muscle, heart, training, sport, physical activity
Adjunct professor Kari Kalliokoski, PhD, MSc currently works as the Research Manager at the Turku PET Centre. He graduated from University of Jyväskylä in 1998 in Exercise Physiology (MSc) and did his PhD work in University of Turku in 1998-2001. After that he has worked as postdoctoral fellow at Turku PET Centre in 2001-2003 and at Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen Denmark in 2003-2004. He returned to Turku PET Centre in 2004 and has thereafter worked in different researcher positions and as a research group leader. In 2004-2011 he worked as research scientist and in 2011-2016 as Academy Research Fellow funded by Academy of Finland. This was followed with a short period as research scientist before he was appointed to his current position as the Research Manager of the Turku PET Centre. In the current position he is responsible for the industry-sponsored studies performed at the Turku PET Centre, This covers all the administrative issues related to the projects, from project planning to project reporting. In 2025-2026 Kalliokoski works also as Visiting Professot at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
In my research I have focused on the acute and chronic (training) effects of exercise on myocardial and skeletal muscle blood flow and metabolism and the mechanisms controlling those.
- Biodistribution, Safety Profile, and Radiation Dosimetry of [18F]SYN2, a PET Cardiac Perfusion Tracer, in Healthy Subjects (2025)
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of reducing sedentary behavior on liver insulin sensitivity, liver fat content, and liver enzyme levels : a six-month randomized controlled trial (2025)
- American Journal of Physiology : Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hepatic Glucose Uptake During Euglycemic Hyperinsulinemia Associates With Glycemia During Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (2025)
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations between Leisure and Work Time Activity Behavior and 24 H Ambulatory Blood Pressure among Aging Workers (2024)
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Daily standing time, dietary fiber, and intake of unsaturated fatty acids are beneficially associated with hepatic insulin sensitivity in adults with metabolic syndrome (2024)
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of reduced sedentary time on resting, exercise and post-exercise blood pressure in inactive adults with metabolic syndrome – a six-month exploratory RCT (2024)
- Journal of Human Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of reducing sedentary behaviour on back pain, paraspinal muscle insulin sensitivity and muscle fat fraction and their associations: a secondary analysis of a 6-month randomised controlled trial (2024)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Loading Enhances Glucose Uptake in Muscles, Bones, and Bone Marrow of Lower Extremities in Humans (2024)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Myocardial Blood Flow in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients at Rest and During Exercise (2024)
- Physiology
(Abstract) - Myocardial blood flow in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients at rest and during exercise (2024)
- iScience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New improved radiometabolite analysis method for [18F]FTHA from human plasma : a test-retest study with postprandial and fasting state (2024)
- EJNMMI Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sedentary behavior reduction and blood lipids in adults with metabolic syndrome: a 6-month randomized controlled trial (2024)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sedentary time associates detrimentally and physical activity beneficially with metabolic flexibility in adults with metabolic syndrome (2024)
- American Journal of Physiology : Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tiredness after work associates with less leisure-time physical activity (2024)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations of sedentary time, physical activity, and fitness with muscle glucose uptake in adults with metabolic syndrome (2023)
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Critical limb-threatening ischaemia and microvascular transformation: clinical implications (2023)
- European Heart Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of reducing sedentary behavior on cardiorespiratory fitness in adults with metabolic syndrome: A 6-month RCT (2023)
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lower abdominal adipose tissue cannabinoid type 1 receptor availability in young men with overweight (2023)
- Obesity
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reducing Sedentary Time and Whole-Body Insulin Sensitivity in Metabolic Syndrome - A 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial (2023)
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effects of a 6-month intervention aimed to reduce sedentary time on skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity: a randomized controlled trial (2023)
- American Journal of Physiology : Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)