Projects and Grants

Ongoing projects:

Novel 3D-bioprintable and injectable tissue-adhesive biomaterials for Stimuli-responsive controlled release of therapeutic agents (TIAD)

Academy of Finland project, 2024-2028, PI Elina Vuorimaa-Laukanen

Nonlinear Optical Processes Initiated with Red/Near-infrared Light for in-situ 3D Printing or Postcuring Applications (NORPPA)

Sustainable Biomedical and Toxicological Research (SUSBIO) Profiling Area Funding, Academy of Finland, 2024-2027, PIs Timo Laaksonen and Nikita Durandin (together with Minna Kellomäki from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University) 

Light-Activated Materials for Bioscaffold Fabrication and Controlled Drug Release Applications (LAMBDA)

Academy of Finland Research Fellow, 2023-2027, PI Nikita Durandin 

Photoactivatable Drug Releasing Implants (PADRE)

ERC, 2021-2026, PI Timo Laaksonen, https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/pharmaceutical-nanotechnology/erc-padre

Completed projects:

New Bioinks Photocurable Upon Biosafe Red/Far-red Light for 3D (Bio)Printing Applications (PREPRINT)

Sustainable Biomedical and Toxicological Research (SUSBIO) Profiling Area Seed Funding, Academy of Finland, 2023, PI Nikita Durandin (together with Dr. Sanna Turunen from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University) 

Triple-triplet annihilation upconversion for localized photochemical reactions and therapies

Academy of Finland project, 2018-2022, PI Timo Laaksonen

State of the art microscopies for live cell study of the extracellular vesicle – mediated drug delivery (SMILE)

Academy of Finland pos doctoral researcher, 2019-2022, PI Ekaterina Lisitsyna

EVE – EV Ecosystem for Theranostic Platforms

Business Finland, 2019-2022, PI Elina Vuorimaa-Laukanen, https://www.bloodservice.fi/Research%20Projects/ev-ecosystem

In situ physicochemical and spectroscopic methods for studying interactions of nanoparticles with live cells (InNPce)

Academy of Finland project, 2017-2021, PI Elina Vuorimaa-Laukanen