Hello everyone, I recently started as a group leader at Turku Bioscience (TBC) and am one of the new heads of our microscopy facility, now called the…
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation has granted nearly €1 million to support research led by Professor Jukka Westermarck
993 000 € was granted to a research project led by our Group Leader Professor Jukka Westermarck titled “Small-molecule targeting and nuclear functions of CIP2A in triple-negative breast cancer.” The…
Cecilia Sahlgren’s group discovers a new mechanism driving breast cancer progression
Our affiliated research group led by Professor Cecilia Sahlgren at Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship has identified a new mechanism directing the adverse remodeling of tumor tissue during breast…
Laura Elo is awarded the Leif C. Groop Award for outstanding research on type 1 diabetes
Laura Elo a group leader at Turku Bioscience is awarded the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research 2026. She is professor of computational medicine and has developed statistical…
Reflections from the Global Young Scientist Summit 2026
Omkar Joshi is standing third from the left (viewer’s left). I am Omkar Joshi, a Doctoral Researcher in the lab of Prof. Johanna Ivaska at the Turku Bioscience Center. I…
Finnish Cultural Foundation Awards Funding to Turku Bioscience Researchers
We are pleased to announce recent funding from The Finnish Cultural Foundation: Amogh Vinay Ranade (Lahesmaa Group): Doctoral research on novel regulatory factors…
Newly discovered gut microbial molecules in infancy may influence the risk of type 1 diabetes
An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important role in shaping the developing immune system during early childhood. The findings provide a new…
Season’s Greetings & Happy 2026!
Winner of the 2025 Staff Children’s Christmas Card Competition Season’s Greetings & Happy 2026! From everyone at Turku Bioscience. Riitta Lahesmaa,Director of Turku Bioscience Centre…
The Sigrid Jusélius senior researcher posts grant to Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo
The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has awarded a four-year senior researcher grant of €700,000 to our affiliated group leader, Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo. The senior researcher grants are designed for adjunct professors…
Guillaume Jacquemet awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize
Guillaume Jacquemet, a Group Leader at our centre, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for young researchers at Åbo Akademi University. Jacquemet specialises in cell biology, cancer biology, and microscopy…