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…
Researchers from Turku Bioscience Centre Identified Novel Oncogenic Function for Receptor Linked with Alzheimer’s Disease
Common and rare SORLA single nucleotide polymorphisms have been associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. So far, SORLA has been mainly studied in neurons, but the new study focused…
Turku Bioscience staff trip to Rosala Viking Village
On may 24th Turku Bioscience staff went on a spring trip to Rosala Viking Village. There were 68 participants so we were quite a bunch. This was a great chance…
Business Finland TUTLI grant awarded to Coffey lab to develop Parkinson’s Disease diagnostic test towards commercialization.
Business Finland awarded the Coffey lab a grant worth 887,000 € to develop their Parkinson’s Disease diagnostic test towards commercialization. The project identifies protein signatures from patient liquid biopsies. Funding…