Riku Kiviranta MD, PhD

Dr. Kiviranta graduated as an M.D. at the University of Turku in 2010 and received his Ph.D. at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, the University of Turku in 2014 After a year of clinical work in the Department of Medicine at the Turku University Hospital he joined professor Roland Baron’s research group as a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, the USA in 2015 until 2017. In 2018 professor Baron was recruited to Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, and Dr. Kiviranta continued his postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School until 2010.

In 2010 Dr. Kiviranta joined Turku Collegium of Science and Medicine at the University of Turku and began to establish his own research group in the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Turku. He also continued his residency and fellow training in Endocrinology. Dr. Riku Kiviranta received board certification of Endocrinology in 2015. He was named Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Molecular Medicine in 2013 and as an Assistant Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (tenure track) in 2018. Assistant Professor Kiviranta currently works as a Clinical Endocrinologist at the Turku University Hospital and leads his research group in the Institute of Biomedicine and in the Department of Clinical Medicine.