Senior Scientist

Kirsi is a Doctor of Science (Tech.) in Medical Engineering and Master of Science (Tech.) in Biomaterial Engineering.  

She conducted her doctoral studies and worked as post-doc in Prof. Katriina Aalto-Setälä’s group at Tampere University.  Throughout her academic career, Kirsi was involved in projects where genetic cardiac disease models were developed from iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes with the main focus on the cardiomyocyte functionality characterization and pharmaceutical compound testing. Kirsi has also developed and studied cardiovascular constructs with co-cultures of cardiomyocytes and cells forming vascular-like networks together with biomaterials.  

From 2021, Kirsi worked as Regulatory and Start-up Specialist in clinical research organization IQVIA where she coordinated the initiation of clinical trials of investigational medicinal products in Nordic countries. 

At StemSight Kirsi works in R&D including cell culture and in vitro analysis as well as the development of analytical methods for product development and quality control.