In the context of the 35th BioCity Symposium “Vision, Expanded” (27-28 August 2026) the twenty-second Elias Tillandz prize will be awarded for the best scientific paper published in 2025 in…
Rector Widen Visited Our Centre
Åbo Akademi University Rector, Gunilla Widén, visited our Centre on Wednesday, February 25th, to learn more about our research and core facilities services operations and our staff. The visit included…
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…
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…
Turku Bioscience Centre Is Recruiting New Research Leaders
Turku Bioscience Centre is currently inviting applications for two key research positions that will strengthen its internationally competitive bioscience research environment in Turku, Finland. We are seeking a…
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…
New Funding for our Centre’s Researchers
Warm congratulations to all for their funding! Cancer Foundation Finland Project grants Associate Professor, Docent, Guillaume Jacquemet and his group: €225,000 Professor Riitta Lahesmaa and her group €150,000 Docent Sami…