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…
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 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.
Turku Metabolomics Core Enhances MALDI Imaging with New Sprayer
The Turku Metabolomics Core, part of the Turku Bioscience Centre, has acquired a SunCollect MALDI Sprayer (Sunchrom) with support from the Research Council of Finland, the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation,…
Christel Sourander Successfully Defends Her Thesis
Congratulations! Christel Sourander successfully defended her thesis: “Identifying the effect of JNK on neural activity and synaptic plasticity…
Researchers at Åbo Akademi University Discover a New Molecular Switch Regulating Breast Cancer Progression
A research group led by our our affiliated group leader Professor Lea Sistonen at Åbo Akademi University has discovered a new mechanism that regulates breast cancer progression.
Autumn 2025 Frontiers of Science seminars start soon
Frontiers of Science is a long-running seminar series, celebrating over 25 years of bringing internationally acclaimed researchers to Turku. Organized by BioCity Turku, the series features world-leading scientists presenting…
The Elias Tillandz Prize to Turku Bioscience Researchers
The Elias Tillandz Prize for the Best Scientific Publication of 2024 was presented for two groundbreaking cancer studies from Jukka Westermarck’s research group and Johanna Ivaska‘s research group.
Registration to FFGC Sequencing day is open!
Registration to FFGC Sequencing day is open! The event is organized by Finnish Functional Genomics Centre (FFGC) together with Illumina on Tuesday 16.9.2025 and will take place in…
Dr. Inna Starskaia received a three-year training award from Breakthrough T1D
Dr. Inna Starskaia has been awarded a prestigious three-year training award from Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization. The funded project, titled…