Turku Bioscience Centre

Carlos Rogério Figueiredo received the Young Investigator Award

November 4, 2025

Carlos Rogério Figueiredo has received the Young Investigator Award from the Scandinavian Society for Immunology. The award is given for high-quality immunological research and promotion of the field of immunology. Figueiredo was announced as the Read more

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Participate to Open Hardware Workshop, sign up now!

November 3, 2025

Access to research hardware remains a global challenge and it impacts also researchers in high-income countries. The availability of hardware may be limited due to lack of funding, slow acquisition processes, geographic distance, and many Read more

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The Academy of Finland granted Johanna Ivaska €2,400,000 in funding for an Academy Professor position

October 30, 2025

The Academy of Finland granted our Group Leader, Professor Johanna Ivaska €2,400,000 in funding for an Academy Professor position to support research investigating how the stiffness and composition of the tissue surrounding a cancer tumor Read more

Guillaume Jacquemet and Cecilia Sahlgren receive funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interactions (IMMENs)

October 30, 2025

Associate Professor Guillaume Jacquemet, our Group Leader, and Professor Cecilia Sahlgren, our affiliated Group Leader, from Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship have been awarded funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre Read more

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IMMUNOCAPs Visiting Professor Introductory Seminar. The Long and Winding Road: The career path of Luke O’Neill

November 11, 2025

IMMUNOCAPs Visiting Professor Introductory Seminar. The Long and Winding Road: The career path of Luke O’Neill

November 11, 2025

November 11, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm -

IMMUNOCAPs Visiting Professor Seminar by Professor O’Neill

November 12, 2025

IMMUNOCAPs Visiting Professor Seminar by Professor O’Neill

November 12, 2025

November 12, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm -

HDDD Researcher Collision Event: Women’s Health

November 17, 2025

HDDD Researcher Collision Event: Women’s Health

November 17, 2025

17th November at 08:30-15:30 Onsite event in Cave auditorium, Joki innovation centre Do you want to connect with others who are interested in doing research about women’s health? Are you curious about the new insights Event details

AI2Med Conference

November 25, 2025

AI2Med Conference

November 25, 2025

25th–26th November Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Flyer AI2Med is Turku’s dedicated event bringing together AI researchers and medical professionals. This two-day event focuses on the growing need for collaboration between computational scientists and Event details

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Core Facilities

Providing cutting-edge biomedical research services through advanced technologies and expert support.

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Research & Affiliate Groups

Collaborating across disciplines to drive innovative solutions and breakthrough discoveries.

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Publications

Annual publications showcasing impactful scientific contributions in leading international journals.

PUBLICATION

Reinstating Niche Failure in Diabetic Cranial Defects via Chronotaxic Signal-Amplifying Fluidic Biomimetic Hydrogel

Yingji Mao et al.

Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Oct 15:e16398. doi: 10.1002/advs.202516398. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 15, 2025

Cranial stem cell niches (SCNs) are intrinsically scarce and hypoactive, and, exacerbated by chronic inflammation in diabetes, lead to niche failure and regenerative deficit after Read more

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Characterization of Visceral Adipose Tissue Proteome Reveals Metabolic Changes and Inflammatory Signatures in Severe Obesity

Prince Dadson et al.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Oct 12. doi: 10.1002/oby.70041. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 12, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate significant molecular alterations in the VAT proteome associated with severe obesity, providing insights into the underlying mechanisms of metabolic disease. The Read more

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Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances predicts multimodal brain structural and functional outcomes in children aged 5 years: a birth cohort study

Aaron Barron et al.

Lancet Planet Health. 2025 Oct 9:101309. doi: 10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101309. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 12, 2025

BACKGROUND: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous persistent organic pollutants associated with adverse health outcomes in humans. Although they are associated with autism spectrum Read more

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LimROTS: A Hybrid Method Integrating Empirical Bayes and Reproducibility-Optimized Statistics for Robust Differential Expression Analysis

Ali Mostafa Anwara et al.

Bioinformatics. 2025 Oct 11:btaf570. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf570. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 11, 2025

MOTIVATION: Differential expression analysis plays a vital role in omics research enabling precise identification of features that associate with different phenotypes. This process is critical Read more

PUBLICATION

MicroRNA gene dynamics in immune cell subpopulations during aging and atherosclerosis disease development at single-cell resolution

Ana Hernández de Sande et al.

Genome Med. 2025 Oct 6;17(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s13073-025-01530-9.

Published on October 7, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that miRNA gene transcriptional activity is widely impacted in immune cells by aging and during disease development and further identify the corresponding Read more

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Functional characterization and directed evolution of Cicer arietinum glutathione transferases for enhanced hydroperoxidase activity and ligandin function

Anni Kontouri et al.

Phytochemistry. 2025 Sep 27;242:114692. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2025.114692. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 29, 2025

Tau class glutathione transferases (GSTUs) play essential roles in plant defense by facilitating the nucleophilic attack of glutathione (GSH) to a wide range of electrophilic Read more

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Multimedia Science Communication

The Role of Multimedia in Science

October 13, 2025

Have you ever been to a talk or lecture and felt bored? The problem is rarely the science itself, but how it is presented. Cluttered slides, tiny text, odd color combinations, flickering screens, bad audio, Read more

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Career exploration week at the University of Turku: Surprises, Science & Early Morning Struggles

October 9, 2025

This was my first TET week and I got to go to the University of Turku. There has been all kinds of interesting and exciting stuff here, but the best thing is the university staff—many Read more

Turning KRAS Against Itself: A New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

September 9, 2025

We are excited to share the story behind our recent work, published in a scientific journal in 2024, where we uncovered a surprising vulnerability in some of the most aggressive cancers. Our work was one Read more