Heli, University teacher at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the Aalto University of Chemical Engineering, is our principal advisor. She arranged some of our initial funding and has been guiding us in the ideation and helping with any practical issues in the lab.

Minna Poranen

Minna is a University Lecturer, Docent in Molecular virology, and Group Leader in the Self-assembly and replication of double-stranded RNA viruses group at the University of Helsinki. Minna has been advising us especially in the ideation and research phases of our project, in addition to providing us with plasmids from her lab to test with V. natriegens.

Markus Linder

Markus is a Professor of Biomolecular materials at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, and the leader of Biomolecular materials research group. He has guided and helped us in finding experts who would be able to assist with our project

Merja Penttilä

Merja is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the Aalto University of Chemical Engineering and Research Professor in Industrial Biotechnology and Synthetic biology at VTT, and the Principal scientist of Synbio Powerhouse. Merja is perhaps the most adept scientist in synthetic biology in Finland and has helped us a lot with guidance, contacts and opportunities such as attending the Biotech theme week.

Christopher Jonkergouw

Chris is a doctoral candidate in Biomolecular materials research group in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems. Chris has helped our project starting from lab planning, execution, creation of plasmids constructs – and providing us with some of his plasmids to DNA orders and many practical things on how to navigate through the university’s bureaucracy.

Bartosz Gabryelczyk

Bartosz is an academy postdoctoral researcher working in Biomolecular materials research group, in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University. Bartosz has helped us with his expertise and experiences throughout the scope of our project, e.g. with DNA orders, sequencing, protein expression and cell fractioning.

Pekka Heino

Docent, University Lecturer in Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme at the University of Helsinki, Pekka has helped us in the ideation and planning phase of the project.

Ritva Virkola

University lecturer in the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme and member of the Molecular Mechanisms of Bacteria in Infectious Diseases and Health Research Programme at University of Helsinki. Ritva instructed us in sample preparation for microscopy and kindly provided us the materials for it.

Benita Westerlund-Wikström

University lecturer the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme and principal investigator of her research group in the Molecular Mechanisms of Bacteria in Infectious Diseases and Health Research Programme at University of Helsinki. Benita helped us with general questions about biotechnological protein production and bacterial cultures.

Peter Sarin

Docent in molecular biology, university lecturer in the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme and principal investigator of the RNAcious laboratory at University of Helsinki. Peter helped us gain insight into optimization of heterologous protein production through addressing codon bias and tRNA modifications.

Suvi Taira

University lecturer in the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme at University of Helsinki. Suvi gave us valuable feedback on our ideas of genetic editing and measurement techniques.

Eeva Vakkari

MA, MPhil student from the University of Helsinki, Eeva has provided our team assistance in the ideation and planning phase, in addition to giving psychological support to tackle the project.

Päivi Miettinen

We interviewed Päivi, children’s endocrinologist at the New Children’s Hospital, Helsinki. She told us about human growth hormone treatment in more detail, and gave us contacts to dive deeper into the subject

Risto Lapatto

We interviewed Risto, children’s endocrinologist at the New Children’s Hospital, Helsinki, and discussed about the manufacturing methods and treatment decisions in enzyme replacement therapy

Martin Dueblin

We talked to Martin Deublin, mechanical engineer, and managing director at One One Eleven GmbH. He has made a long career in the field of life sciences and biomanufacturing and gave us an idea about how biopharmaceutical companies business strategies works and how it will evolve in the future.

Mia Bengtström

We talked with Mia Bengtström from Pharma Industry Finland PIF, a finnish organization that collects and shares information, knowledge and contacts in the pharmaceutical industry. We interviewed her to get more insights about how the biopharmaceutical production and industry works.

Jari Vehmaanperä

We interviewed Jari Vehmaanperä, CEO of AB Enzymes and research director at Roal enzymes. We got valuable information regarding industrial recombinant protein production and enzyme industry from him.

Tarja Kähkönen & Anssi Linnankivi

We talked to Tarja, Healthcare District Leader, and Anssi, Medical Director, at Roche Finland. Roche has a great amount of different biopharmaceuticals in their portfolio. We got help with understanding the process of developing new biopharmaceuticals, the future and current trends in pharmaceutical industry as well as the operation model of typical pharmaceutical companies.

Tero Saukkonen

We talked to Tero Saukkonen, CMR Director of Novo Nordisk Finland. He helped us to understand the human growth hormone and insulin production and products better as well as gave us valuable insights about business models and issues related to therapeutic proteins.

Robin Payne

We were in correspondence with Robin Payne, a Facilitator at BPOG - BioPhorum Operations Group. He helped us with documents that provided us with information about a technology management process to accelerate innovation in biomanufacturing.

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