Rate My Professor Taavi Torga

Torga's academic interests center on osteoarthritis pathogenesis, cartilage degeneration, molecular biomarker validation via immunohistochemistry, and reproductive tissue histology. Key publications include "Cartilage Collagen Neoepitope C2C Expression in the Articular Cartilage and Its Relation to Joint Tissue Damage in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis" (Biomedicines, 2024), "Comparison of Antigen Retrieval Methods for Immunohistochemical Detection of CILP-2, DDR2 and C2C in Human Knee Osteoarthritis Cartilage" (Histology, 2024), "Expression of CILP-2 and DDR2 and ultrastructural changes in the intervertebral discs of patients with lumbar radiculopathy" (Connective Tissue Research, 2022), "Detection of FSH receptors in mouse and human penile tissue" (Journal of Men's Health, 2025), "Expression of LHCG receptor in the human vulva" (The Aging Male, 2025), and "Apoptosis and ultrastructural changes of smooth muscle cells in the internal thoracic artery" (Annals of Anatomy, 2024). He also serves as Junior Research Fellow in Histology (0.5 position) and Specialist (0.5 position) in the Chair of Histology and Embryology.