Uninversity of Helsinki ^{R&D Center}

The mission of Wartiovaara lab is to understand the molecular background of mitochondrial disorders, and use that knowledge to develop diagnosis and therapy. Mitochondrial dysfunction has shown out to be a common cause of human inherited disease, with amazing clinical variability, from neonatal fatal multisystem disorders to diabetes, neurodegeneration, dysfertility or tumorigenesis of adult age.