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…
Registration to AI2Med imaging event is now open!
Registration for AI2Med Turku 2025 is open! The event is organized by the Turku PET Centre’s IntoImaging group together with the University of Turku’s Department of Computing and will take…
Jonna Alanko receives the Young Investigator Award from the Scandinavian Society for Immunology
Jonna Alanko has received the Young Investigator Award of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology. The award is given for high-quality immunological research and promotion of the field of immunology. Jonna…
Professor Riitta Lahesmaa awarded Johnny Ludvigsson Prize for Outstanding Nordic Researcher
Professor Riitta Lahesmaa was awarded Johnny Ludvigsson Prize for Outstanding Nordic Researcher. The prize is awarded annually by the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Foundation to a Nordic researcher who has conducted…
PFAS levels in mothers’ blood associated with children’s brain structure and function
Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associated with…
Professor Laura Elo receives award for outstanding research from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation awarded Professor of Computational Medicine Laura Elo a €50,000 prize for her outstanding research, development of international scientific collaboration, and contributions to training future…
Recruit your next student at the MSc Thesis Project Expo 2025. Registration is now open!
Do you supervise MSc theses in the biosciences? Join the MSc Thesis Project Expo on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, and meet students who are eager to find their thesis projects.
University of Turku celebrates Professor Shimon Sakaguchi’s Nobel prize
Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, is a visiting professor at the IMMUNOCAPs project that profiles research at the University of Turku. The news of…
Heidi Isokääntä Successfully Defends Dissertation on Gut Microbiome Development
Heidi Isokääntä Successfully Defends Dissertation on Gut Microbiome Deveopment Turku, 26 September 2025 – Bioanalyst Heidi Isokääntä has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in medical microbiology at the University of…
University of Jyväskylä to Award Honorary Doctorate to Johanna Ivaska
The University of Jyväskylä will award 11 new honorary doctorates in May 2026. One of them will be Professor Johanna Ivaska, a group leader at Turku Bioscience. The faculties…