New Funding for our Centre’s Researchers
Warm congratulations to all for their funding!
Cancer Foundation Finland
Project grants
- Associate Professor, Docent, Guillaume Jacquemet and his group: €225,000
- Professor Riitta Lahesmaa and her group €150,000
- Docent Sami Ventelä and his group €100,000
- Doctoral researcher Eleftheria Maranou (De Figueiredo Lab) €4,000
Travel grants
- Dr. Oxana Denisova (Westermarck Lab) €1,100
- Dr. Nikhil Gupta (Westermarck Lab) €1,900
- Doctoral researcher Jenny Pessa (Sistonen Lab) €1,100
The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters – The Väisälä Fund
- Anna-Mari Haapanen-Saaristo, MSc (Zebrafish Core) €28,000
The Finnish Brain Foundation
- Doctoral researcher Anniina Jokela (Coffey Lab) €5,000
The Orion Research Foundation
- Doctoral researcher Roosa Kattelus (Lahesmaa Lab) €6.000
Recent Posts
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Season’s Greetings & Happy 2026!
Season’s Greetings & Happy 2026! From everyone at Turku Bioscience. Riitta Lahesmaa,Director of Turku Bioscience Read moreDecember 23, 2025
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The Sigrid Jusélius senior researcher posts grant to Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo
The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has awarded a four-year senior researcher grant of €700,000 to our Read moreDecember 15, 2025
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Guillaume Jacquemet awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize
Guillaume Jacquemet, a Group Leader at our centre, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for Read moreDecember 15, 2025
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Sami Ventelä and Jukka Westermarck recognized by Medical Association Duodecim for their influential work.
Medical association Duodecim selects each year persons that have been most influential in the field Read moreDecember 11, 2025
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Our affiliated Group Leader Rafa Najumudeen secures ERC Consolidator Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to our affiliated Group Leader, Read moreDecember 9, 2025
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New computational tool helps scientists interpret complex single-cell data
Researchers from Laura Elo’s group, have developed a new computational method to interpret complex single-cell Read moreNovember 17, 2025