Turku Bioscience News

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    Professor Westermarck from the University of Turku Nominated as a Member of the Board of the European Cancer Organisations

    July 14, 2022

    Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Turku, InFLAMES Flagship Director Jukka Westermarck has been nominated as a member of the European Association for Read more

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    Researchers Develop a New Method for Studying Functionality of Microbiota

    July 7, 2022

    A research group from Turku Bioscience Centre, Finland, has developed a new method for studying the functionality of microbiota through metaproteomics. The new method poses Read more

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    Johanna Ivaska chosen as EMBO Council Member from 2023

    July 6, 2022

    Five new members of EMBO Council, a new chair and vice-chair were appointed at the EMBO Council meeting in Heidelberg on 24 and 25 May Read more

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    Oxana Denisova receives 30 000 grant from Aamu foundation

    July 4, 2022

    Oxana Denisova receives 30 000 grant from Aamu foundation for her research on ‘PP2A in medulloblastoma therapy resistance: novel opportunities for targeted therapeutics.’ – My Read more

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    Scandinavian Society for Immunology Young Investigator award to Tapio Lönnberg

    June 17, 2022

    Tapio Lönnberg has received Scandinavian Society for Immunology Young Investigator award to recognize his excellent research in immunology.  Dr. Lönnberg works in Turku Bioscience Centre Read more

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    New Study: Stress-Specific Genome-Wide Programs of Genes and Enhancers

    June 13, 2022

    Cells are exposed to various types of cytotoxic stress including oxidative stress, elevated temperatures and toxins. Surviving stressful conditions requires extensive reprogramming of transcription, which Read more

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    Bioinformatics thesis award to Tomi Suomi

    June 10, 2022

    Dr. Tomi Suomi was awarded for the best Finnish Bioinformatics PhD thesis in 2020-2021 by the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics. The award was given at Read more

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    The Academy of Finland funding to Michael Courtney and Hongbo Zhang

    June 2, 2022

    Michael Courtney from Turku Bioscience received funding of 497 881 euros from The Academy of Finland. His research topic is “Temporally-encoded intracellular signalling and its Read more

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    University of Turku has awarded Title of Docent to Sami Ventelä and Santosh Lamichhane

    June 2, 2022

    The University of Turku, Department of Clinical Medicine has awarded the Title of Docent (Adjunct Professor) in Otorhinolaryngology to Senior Research Fellow and Affiliated Group Read more

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    New funding for studying missense mutants of SynGAP1 suspected to cause non-syndromic intellectual disability

    May 20, 2022

    20 May 2022 Our lab is delighted to have been awarded funding from the SynGAP Research Fund US, SynGAP Research Fund EU and Leon and friends e.V. for a new project on missense mutants of Read more

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    Turku Bioscience funding news

    May 18, 2022

    The first semester is ending and summer holidays are approaching. Our researchers have worked hard to secure funding for their research projects, and several of Read more

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    BioCity Student Symposium – REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

    May 13, 2022

    This year BioCity Student Symposium titled Students are the Solution is arranged on-site by PhD researchers from The University of Turku and Abo Akademi University Read more