Johan Björkegren Group Leader

Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Senior Investigator of the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
Founder, Clinical Gene Networks AB 
Founder, DNA-Guide Europe AB 

Arno Ruusalepp at UT-lab.

I am staff surgeon at Tartu University Hospital performing most of adult cardiac surgery at our department. Areas of my surgical expertise involve CABG, OPCAB, MIDCAB, aortic and mitral valve repair, aortic valve and aortic surgery via ministernotomy, aortic surgery and AF surgery. My research interests involve myocardial protection, mitochondrial function in heart diseases and genetics of coronary artery disease. .

Positions and Honors (chronological order)

• President of "Estonian Society of Cardiac Surgery" since 2007
• Member of European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery since 2002
• Member of Estonian Surgeons Society since 1997

Josefin Skogsberg at KI-lab.

Associate Professor

Main focus: Identifying gene regulatory networks responsible for atherosclerosis regression using a mouse model with human like hypercholesterolemia.

Rajeev Jain at UT-lab.

Senior researcher. Head of cell culture studies and cell-type specific RNA isolation from patients.

Raili Ermel at UT-lab.

Heli Järve at UT-lab.

Vascular Surgeon, MD, Carotid lesion sampling

I graduated from medical  faculty of University of Tartu in 2000 and thereafter specialized on cardiovascular surgery. Starting in 2006, I am working at the Tartu University Hospital as a vascular surgeon. I find the carotid surgery as an interesting field including various vascular operations area.

Hassan Foroughi Asl at KI-lab.

Bioinformatic and System Biology

Risk enrichment analysis of groups of functionally associated genes to a given complex disease using GWAS.

Husain Ahammad Talukdar at KI-lab.

Computational biologist, network inference.

Kati Sild at UT-lab.

Medical student, endothelial RNA isolation

Aet Saar at UT-lab.

Medical student, Carotid sampling, patient characteristics, carotid lesion preparation

Simon Jonsson at KI-lab.

MD, Databases maintenance and master thesis

Tiia Tooming at UT-lab.

Technician - RNA and DNA isolations, cell culturing

Anamika Jain at UT-lab.

Technician - maternal leave

Jaagup Truusalu at UT-lab.

Medical student, Endothelial RNA isolation from CAD patient tissues

Henri Kaljumäe at UT-lab.

Medical student - patient characterization of STARNET cohort