Allen Kaasik, PhD
Allen Kaasik performed his PhD studies in 1998 at the University of Tartu and the University of Helsinki, focusing on the regulation of cardiac function by thyroid hormones. He subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at INSERM in Châtenay-Malabry, France, in the field of muscle bioenergetics. He was appointed full professor in 2008 and, from 2019, has served as Head of the Department of Pharmacology. From 2025, he will also lead Estonian Bioimaging, a national network of high-end imaging facilities. His research focuses on organellar biology in neurodegenerative diseases, with recent discoveries relating to mitochondrial function and dynamics and the role of calcium in Wolfram syndrome.