Past Post-doctoral Fellows and Former Laboratory Members

Past Post-Doctoral Fellows

(Affiliation or position information given if available)

Martin Angers, PhD

Current affiliation: Visiting Fellow at NIH

Agron Collaku, PhD

Current affiliation: Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC, Dept of Pharmacogenomics, Raritan, NJ

Arto Hautala, PhD

Current affiliation: Department of Exercise and Medical Physiology, Verve Research, Oulu, Finland

Peter Jacobson, MD

Current affiliation: Department of Body Composition and Metabolism, Sahlgrenska University Hospital,Göteborg, Sweden

Hanna-Maria Lakka, MD, PhD

Current position: Senior Assistant, Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Finland

Timo Lakka, MD, PhD

Current position: Professor of physiology and exercise medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland

Marianne Larose, PhD

Current affiliation: SAGE Facility, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Center, Laval University Medical Center, Québec, Canada.

Ruth Loos, PhD

Current Position: Investigative Scientist at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK

Tomohiro Okura, PhD

Current affiliation: Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Jesus Rico-Sanz, PhD

Roland Rosmond, MD

Current affiliation: Departments of Heart and Lung Diseases, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

Nicola Santoro, MD

Current affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Monaldi Hospital, Second University of Naples, Italy

Jonny St. Amand, PhD

Current position: Director, SAGE Facility, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Center, Laval University Medical Center, Québec, Canada.

Riitta Simonen, PhD

Current affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland

Nadine Spielmann, PhD

Current affiliation: Government Public Health and Surveillance Institute, Berlin, Germany

Guang Sun, MD, PhD

Current position: Assistant professor, Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Shigeho Tanaka, PhD

Current affiliation: Health Promotion and Exercise Program, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Togashi, PhD

Current affiliation: Faculty of Education, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Olavi Ukkola, MD

Current affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Former Lab Members

Brahim Assani, PhD

Current affiliation: Department of Epidemiology,University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

John Sands, PhD

Sunita Seemanapalli, MD

Current affiliation: School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Eric Snyder, PhD

Current position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

Brandon Walts, MS

Current position: Bioinformatics Specialist, University of Florida Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL