Moshe Finel

Name:

Finel, Moshe

Title:

Ph.D., Docent

Occupation:

University Researcher, Group leader, Principal Investigator, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland

Date and place of birth:

December 19, 1952, Israel

Citizenship:

Finnish and Israeli

Marital status:        

Divorced, 3 children.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel. Graduation on 29.6.1982.

Master of Science, The Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Section of Life Sciences, Rehovot, Israel. Graduation on 28.11.1983.

Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Natural Sciences Faculty, Department of Biochemistry. Graduation on 22.6.1989

Post-doctoral training in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK. 10.7.1989 - 9.7.1991

Positions held:

Research Associate, Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, 1984 -1989.

Researcher (post doc), Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council (MRC), Cambridge, UK, 1989 – 1991.

"Young Researcher", the Academy of Finland, Medical Research Council, 1.8.1991 -31.7.1993.

Teaching “assistant” (lecturer), University of Helsinki, Department of Medical Chemistry, 1.1.1993 - 31.12.1997 and 1.1.1998 - 31.12.2002.

Chief research scientist, DDTC, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, 1.8.2000-31.9.2007. On January 2008 the name of this position was changed to “University Researcher”.

“Academy Researcher” 1.10.2007 - 31.7.2008, Group leader, CDR (Centre for Drug Research, the new name of DDTC), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

“University Researcher” and Group leader, CDR, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki. 1.8.2008 –31.7.2012.

“University Researcher” and Principal Investigator, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki. 1.8.2012 –present.

Docent in medical chemistry, University of Helsinki, 6.6.1994.

Established competencies:

Professorship in biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 1996.

Main research activities:

M.Sc. Thesis (1984): Isolation and partial characterization of the ATP synthase, CF₀-CF₁ complex, of the halotolerant alga Dunaliella bardawil. Department of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Ph.D. Thesis (1989): Oligomeric structure and subunit requirement of proton-translocating cytochrome oxidase. Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Bacterial respiratory chain terminal oxidases, 1987 - 1994.

Structure and function of mitochondrial NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (Complex I), 1989 - 2006.

Mitochondrial diseases, 1992 - 2006.

Molecular biology of bacterial NADH:quinone oxidoreductases, Complex I (NDH-1) and NDH-2, 1994 - 2006.

The human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes (UGTs) and glucuronidation of drugs, steroids and other xenobiotics and endogenous molecules, 2001- present.

Human drug and drug metabolites efflux ABC-transporters, 2010- present.

Supervised doctoral dissertations

Anna Majander (1996), Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki.

Marko Kervinen (2006), Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oulu.

Ingo Bichlmaier (2008), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Anne-Sisko Patana (2009) Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki.

Sanna Siissalo (2009) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Anna Alonen (2009) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Taina Sten (2010) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Sanna Kaivosaari (2010) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Katriina Itäaho (2011) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Anne Soikkeli (2012) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Hongbo Zhang (2012) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Nenad Manevski (2013) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Nina Sneitz (2013) Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki.

Publications:

Currently (December 2015) 125 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.