Season’s Greetings & Happy 2026!

December 23, 2025

Winner of the 2025 Staff Children’s Christmas Card Competition Season's Greetings & Happy 2026! From everyone at Turku Bioscience. Riitta Lahesmaa,Director of Turku Bioscience Centre

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The Sigrid Jusélius senior researcher posts grant to Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo

December 15, 2025

The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has awarded a four-year senior researcher grant of €700,000 to our affiliated group leader, Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo. The senior researcher grants are designed for adjunct professors (docents) or independent medical researchers Read more

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Guillaume Jacquemet awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize

December 15, 2025

Guillaume Jacquemet, a Group Leader at our centre, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for young researchers at Åbo Akademi University. Jacquemet specialises in cell biology, cancer biology, and microscopy techniques, including super-resolution imaging, live-cell Read more

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New Funding for our Centre’s Researchers

December 12, 2025

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 Read more

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Sami Ventelä and Jukka Westermarck recognized by Medical Association Duodecim for their influential work.

December 11, 2025

Medical association Duodecim selects each year persons that have been most influential in the field of medicine. This year´s list included two group leaders from Turku Bioscience Centre, Docent Sami Ventelä and Professor Jukka Westermarck. Read more

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Our affiliated Group Leader Rafa Najumudeen secures ERC Consolidator Grant

December 9, 2025

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to our affiliated Group Leader, Rafa Najumudeen from FIMM, University of Helsinki, to investigate the metabolic landscape of intestinal stem cells and cancer-initiating cells in Read more

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New computational tool helps scientists interpret complex single-cell data

November 17, 2025

Researchers from Laura Elo's group, have developed a new computational method to interpret complex single-cell data. The method helps researchers identify and group cell types across samples. "We were inspired by the process of assembling Read more

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Carlos Rogério Figueiredo received the Young Investigator Award

November 4, 2025

Carlos Rogério Figueiredo has received the Young Investigator Award from the Scandinavian Society for Immunology. The award is given for high-quality immunological research and promotion of the field of immunology. Figueiredo was announced as the Read more

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Participate to Open Hardware Workshop, sign up now!

November 3, 2025

Access to research hardware remains a global challenge and it impacts also researchers in high-income countries. The availability of hardware may be limited due to lack of funding, slow acquisition processes, geographic distance, and many Read more

The Academy of Finland granted Johanna Ivaska €2,400,000 in funding for an Academy Professor position

October 30, 2025

The Academy of Finland granted our Group Leader, Professor Johanna Ivaska €2,400,000 in funding for an Academy Professor position to support research investigating how the stiffness and composition of the tissue surrounding a cancer tumor Read more

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Guillaume Jacquemet and Cecilia Sahlgren receive funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interactions (IMMENs)

October 30, 2025

Associate Professor Guillaume Jacquemet, our Group Leader, and Professor Cecilia Sahlgren, our affiliated Group Leader, from Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship have been awarded funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre Read more

Registration to AI2Med imaging event is now open!

October 21, 2025

Registration for AI2Med Turku 2025 is open! The event is organized by the Turku PET Centre’s IntoImaging group together with the University of Turku’s Department of Computing and will take place in Turku, Finland on Read more