Semester finally started

Our university had the Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year, a couple of days ago. Despite the invitation, I skipped it, since I had much more important this to do; to welcome the new students who are working in our group for this semester. The first one was Unna, who started her master's thesis in our OATP-project doing bioanalytics (bioconversion and cellular uptake studies of novel OATP2B1-utilizing prodrugs), followed by Riina, a pharmacology student supervised by Aaro, but working within the same project with Unna, but instead of in vitro studies, doing the in vivo studies. Also, Jerry will start on the following week with the synthesis of novel brain-targeted PP2A-prodrugs, and we will also get 3 ERASMUS students soon, the first one Bradley from UK already visited us, and he will start also working on the synthesis of TACE or ADAM17-inhibitors with Mikko, also next week, but he will later on also do some modelling with butyrylcholinesterase.

Let's hope that after a couple of months, I have something to report from the projects! 😍 Some of us, was also able to finally use the new beach volley court in front of the Mediteknia. Let's see if we can replay our game against modellers outside before it gets too chilly...