Turku becomes a host city to EuroBioImaging network Management Centre which opens in the beginning of November. The network consists of 15 EU member states and 29 service centres that…
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation Grants €1.7 million for Riitta Lahesmaa
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation has awarded 1.7 million euros for T-cell research that is led by academy professor Riitta Lahesmaa. T-cells are critical in regulating the human immune system.
Turku Bioscience celebrating its 30th Anniversary
An Anniversary Symposium was arranged October 2, 2019, to acclaim the achievements of Turku Bioscience. The symposium was a great success and was a wonderful event to link the past…
Turku Bioscience blog on how technology centres drive science
Turku Bioscience Operates at the Frontiers of Science Turku Bioscience will have a monthly blog on various timely topics. This month, Director John Eriksson wrote a blog with the title:…
Funding for Turku Bioscience members
We are delighted to report about funding successes at Turku Bioscience: Johanna Ivaska, Riitta Lahesmaa and Matej Oresic received Novo Nordisk Foundation – funding for 1-3…
Turku Bioscience 30th Anniversary Symposium
The Anniversary symposium of Turku Bioscience will be held Wednesday, October 2, 12-18. The overarching topic will be the role of research infrastructures in developing science (also the topic of…
Patrik Hollos Won Nordic Life Science Award 2019
Patrik Hollos won the Nordic Life Sciences award in academic class for the PARKS project at the NLSDays in Malmo September 9th. Patrik is business champion for the Parkinson’s Biomarker…
Chronic Enteroviral Infection Modifies Broadly Pancreatic Cellular Functions
Enteroviral infections are common viral infections with usually rather few symptoms, and they are also believed to be linked to the onset of type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is…
Jukka Westermarck and his group received the Elias Tillandz -prize
Prof. Jukka Westermarck and his group received the Elias Tillandz -prize for the best publication of the year for his ground-breaking study on that reveals the druggability of type-2A phosphatase,…
Blood signature for β-cell autoimmunity – Potential Tool for Disease Prevention
Using cutting-edge genomics methods a gene signature predicting type 1 diabetes was discovered. This signature is detectable already before the appearance of type 1 diabetes associated autoantibodies. The finding could…