The first few months and years of life are crucial to the development of the human immune system. This is an important phase as the immune system can define which…
Finnish Diabetes Association PhD thesis award to Essi Laajala
Dr. Essi Laajala was awarded second prize for her PhD thesis in the field of diabetes study by the Finnish Diabetes Association. The award was given at this year’s Diabetes…
Otto Kauko receives Finnish Medical Foundation’s research group founder grant (190 000€)
Responses to targeted cancer therapies are often short-lived, because tumor cells escape the effects of therapy via rewired growth signaling, or due to expansion of small subpopulations of intrinsically drug…
Election of the personnel’s representative to TBC board
The term for Turku Bioscience and BioCity Turku common board is ending this year. One board member is representing TBC people, and it is now time to elect the…
Professor Jukka Westermarck received Orion Research Foundation’s special grant of EUR 100,000
Professor Jukka Westermarck has been carrying out research into the biology of cancer for almost 30 years. His research group has endeavoured to identify signalling mechanisms in cancer cells that promote malignancy…
MD and associate professor Sami Ventelä receives a grant of 300,000€ from the Jane and Aatos Erkko foundation
The goal of Sami Ventelä’s research is to develop novel biomarker-based methods for early detection of cancer aggressiveness and for cancer treatment stratification. – This is a great recognition for…
Sticky cell fingers help keep breast tumours contained
Researchers at Turku University and Åbo Akademi University, Finland, have identified that finger-like cellular extensions called filopodia contribute to building a barrier surrounding breast tumours. At the early…
Dissertation Defence: MSc Nirman Poudel
Glutathione transferases are important enzymes that play a key role in protecting cells from various threats, including foreign chemicals (xenobiotics). In MSc Nirmal Poudel’s thesis, the crystal structures…
Turku Bioscience research reveals novel biomarkers for cancer therapy stratification
Tutkimuksessa kehitettiin uudenlainen tapa tunnistaa sädehoidolle huonosti reagoivat potilaat (Väitös: LL Johannes Routila, 21.10.2022, korva-, nenä- ja kurkkutautioppi) https://www.utu.fi/en/news/events/dissertation-defense-otorhinolaryngology-ll-johannes-routila LL Johannes Routilan Turun yliopistossa…
The Turku Screening Unit is now a partner site of EU-OPENSCREEN
The Turku Sceening Unit is officially a specialised screening site of the EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC. Our specialisation include dyanamic and longitudinal imaging-based phenotypic screens of complex cell systems including, with the…