Perseverance is the secret to the success of Academy Professor Riitta Lahesmaa. Her approach follows a simple principle: if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. She keeps…
New High-Performance Genome Research Instrumentation to Turku
Biocenter Finland’s Biocity Turku unit has received significant funding which enables acquisition of new instrumentation for genome research. The high-performance sequencer, representing the state-of-the-art technology for genome research, can read…
Researchers Discovered New Immune Response Regulators
The research groups of Academy Professor Riitta Lahesmaa and Research Director Laura Elo from Turku Centre for Biotechnology have discovered new proteins that regulate T cells in the human immune…
Jaroslav Icha has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
Jaroslav Icha has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship to continue his postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Johanna Ivaska, the Cell Adhesion and Cancer laboratory! Selected publication Moreno-Layseca…
Finnish Medical Foundation awarded €150,000 to CBT´s affiliated group leader Sami Ventelä
Finnish Medical Foundation awarded Research Group Founder Grant of €150,000 to Clinical Lecturer at the University of Turku, Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, MD Sami Ventelä. Ventelä is also a new Affiliated…
Syöpäsolujen hoitovastetta määrittävän jarrumekanismin tutkimukselle Syöpäsäätiön suurapuraha (In Finnish only)
Syöpäsäätiö on myöntänyt 450 000 euron suurapurahan Turun yliopiston kolmevuotiselle tutkimushankkeelle, jonka tavoitteena on selvittää syöpäsolun sisäisiä mekanismeja rintasyövässä ja pahanlaatuisessa aivosyövässä.
New Mathematical Model Predicts Respiratory Viral Infection Symptoms Severity
A team from the University of Turku has developed a mathematical model that predicts which patients become symptomatic after viral exposure using gene expression levels in blood prior to exposure.
International collaboration between Finnish and U.S. researchers identify new rules for cancer therapies
More on University of Turku news page in Finnish.
Ivaska Also Awarded with This Year’s Medix Prize
The awarded article “SHANK proteins limit integrin activation by directly interacting with Rap1 and R-Ras” was published in the journal Nature Cell Biology. Twice during her career, Ivaska has received research funding…
Professor John Eriksson was awarded with the title of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Professor John Eriksson was awarded with the title of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland by the President of the Republic of Finland, Sauli…