Dr. Petri Turhanen, Ph.D, is university researcher at University of Eastern Finland (UEF),School of Pharmacy. He received M.Sc. in organic chemistry at University of Jyväskylä in1997 and Ph.D. in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry at University of Kuopio in 2003.Dr. Turhanen has authored more than 50 publications and conference presentations being amain author in most of them, he also has 2 patents and 2 patent applications.His scientific interests are focused on synthetic organic chemistry with green chemistry aspectand synthesis of different kind of bisphosphonates (BPs) and their derivatives, also synthesisof adenosine triphosphate (ATP) analogs are with great interest. BPs are highly important classof drugs used in many applications in medicinal chemistry field like for the treatment of bonedisorders like Paget´s disease and osteoporosis; besides BPs can be used in many otherapplications such as purification of metal contaminated water. Dr. Turhanen´s lab has abilityto synthesize many different kind of BPs, as some to mention: etidronate, pamidronate,clodronate, alendronate, zoledronate, risedronate, tiludronate, incadronate etc.ATP analogs are also with great interest because of their biological effects and possibleapplications in medicinal field, however they are difficult to prepare because of quite unstablestructure (two -P-O-P- bonds). Dr. Turhanen has also experience of purification of preparedATP analogs by high performance counter current chromatography (HPCCC), which is not acommon method in synthetic chemistry. See more: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/PetriTurhanen