PAAVO HONKAKOSKI

Professor

Professor in Biopharmacy. Head of the Discipline

Paavo Honkakoski has a long experience in regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes, drug transporters and nuclear receptors and their applications to assess drug ADMET properties. He is involved in the UEF research community “DrugTech” and a participant in the H2020 consortium project EDCMET. He has accumulated ~3 M€ competitive research funding. He has ~115 peer-reviewed papers garnering >5700 citations. He is active in both graduate and PhD education, having supervised >50 MSc and 11 PhD theses. He is a member of several editorial boards in journals related to drug research. He has served as a director of Graduate Schools/Doctoral Programs in drug research (2008-2017) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at UEF with responsibilities in research infrastructures and doctoral programs (2012-2017).

Contact info

Organization

Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy

Email

paavo.honkakoski@uef.fi

Phone

+358 40 355 2490

Keywords

ADME research drug metabolism drug transport gene regulation hepatic cells nuclear receptor ocular cells

Teaching Activities

I lead courses on Drug metabolism, Pharmacogenomics, Advanced Biopharmaceutics and Advanced Literature in Biopharmacy as a part of MSc in Pharmacy education. I am also the Head of Discipline in Biopharmacy.

Research groups - UEF

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