Justus Reunanen​

Research Unit of Translational Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Dr. Reunanen has worked as an Academy of Finland (AF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in a three-year AF -funded research project “Molecular characterization of the human intestinal microbiota-host interactome” (2011-2014, 332 000 €). Next he received funding from AF to AF Research Fellow project “Fundamental molecular mechanisms behind microbial colonization of the human intestinal tract” (2016-2021, 909 000 €) at the Biocenter Oulu (BCO) and University of Oulu (UO), Finland, where he started as a PI on September 2016. In 2016 Dr. Reunanen received a 588 000 € funding from the BCO to conduct a four-year Spearhead project “Innovative approaches to discover novel antibiotics – metamining the human intestinal microbiota” (2016-2019). In 2018 Dr. Reunanen was nominated as a Spearhead project partner in BCO-funded Emerging project “Fetal microbiome and exosomes, developing immune system and health in children” (2018-2022) led by Prof. Terhi Tapiainen (MD, pediatrician). In 2019, Dr. Reunanen received a 416 000 € funding from the BCO for the Spearhead project “Secreted vesicles of the human intestinal microbiota in health and disease” (2020-2023).  In 2023 Dr. Reunanen and Prof. Tapiainen received a 456 000 eur funding from the BCO to conduct the Spearhead project “Gut microbiome in obesity from birth to adulthood” (2024-2027). The research group of Dr. Reunanen has developed methodologies for extraction of EVs from multiple clinical sample sources and for the isolation of macromolecules in the EVs along with stream-lined in-house bioinformatics pipelines. The research group of Dr. Reunanen currently comprises of 1 postdoc and 5 PhD-students.
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