Riikka Martikainen (Hämäläinen)

Academy Research Fellow
Department of Neurobiology
University of Eastern Finland
Finland

Academician Neurology
Biography

 He is a Academy Research Fellow at Dept. of Neurobiology, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Science, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland)

Research Intrest

• mitochondrial disease and stem cells energetics • molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial disease, with focus on neural and cardiac models • mitochondrial function and energy metabolism of stem cells in normal and pathological conditions

List of Publications
Hämäläinen RH, Ahlqvist KJ, Ellonen P, Lepistö M, Logan A, et al. (2015) MtDNA Mutagenesis Disrupts Pluripotent Stem Cell Function by Altering Redox Signaling. Cell Reports 358-947-171-965.
Riikka H Hämäläinen (2016) Mitochondrial DNA mutations in iPS cells: mtDNA integrity as standard iPSC selection criteria? The EMBO Journal 35: 1960-1962.
Hämäläinen RH (2016) Mitochondria and mtDNA integrity in stem cell function and differentiation. Curr Opin Genet Dev 38: 83-89.