Turku Bioscience News

    Funding for Turku Bioscience members

    September 25, 2019

    We are delighted to report about funding successes at Turku Bioscience: Johanna Ivaska, Riitta Lahesmaa and Matej Oresic received Novo Nordisk Foundation – funding for Read more

    Turku Bioscience 30th Anniversary Symposium

    September 25, 2019

    The Anniversary symposium of Turku Bioscience will be held Wednesday, October 2, 12-18. The overarching topic will be the role of research infrastructures in developing Read more

    Patrik Hollos Won Nordic Life Science Award 2019

    September 16, 2019

    Patrik Hollos won the Nordic Life Sciences award in academic class for the PARKS project at the NLSDays in Malmo September 9th. Patrik is business Read more

    Chronic Enteroviral Infection Modifies Broadly Pancreatic Cellular Functions

    September 10, 2019

    Enteroviral infections are common viral infections with usually rather few symptoms, and they are also believed to be linked to the onset of type 1 Read more

    Jukka Westermarck and his group received the Elias Tillandz -prize

    August 23, 2019

    Prof. Jukka Westermarck and his group received the Elias Tillandz -prize for the best publication of the year for his ground-breaking study on that reveals Read more

    Blood signature for β-cell autoimmunity – Potential Tool for Disease Prevention

    August 8, 2019

    Using cutting-edge genomics methods a gene signature predicting type 1 diabetes was discovered. This signature is detectable already before the appearance of type 1 diabetes Read more

    Researchers from Turku Bioscience Centre Identified Novel Oncogenic Function for Receptor Linked with Alzheimer’s Disease

    May 29, 2019

    Common and rare SORLA single nucleotide polymorphisms have been associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. So far, SORLA has been mainly studied in neurons, Read more

    Turku Bioscience staff trip to Rosala Viking Village

    May 29, 2019

    On may 24th Turku Bioscience staff went on a spring trip to Rosala Viking Village. There were 68 participants so we were quite a bunch. Read more

    Business Finland TUTLI grant awarded to Coffey lab to develop Parkinson’s Disease diagnostic test towards commercialization.

    May 28, 2019

    Business Finland awarded the Coffey lab a grant worth 887,000 € to develop their Parkinson’s Disease diagnostic test towards commercialization. The project identifies protein signatures Read more

    Johanna Ivaska receives funding from Academy of Finland

    May 22, 2019

    Turku Bioscience is proud to announce that Johanna Ivaska received Academy of Finland funding for her project ‘Adhesion dynamics and mechanobiological pathways as determinants of Read more

    Turku Bioscience team gets broad attention at Live Science Live

    May 20, 2019

    The life science and health even Life Science Live at Turku Fair Centre last week (May  15-16) gathered a broad audience from all over Finland. Read more

    Two Academy Research Fellows selected from Turku Bioscience

    May 6, 2019

    Turku Bioscience proudly presents two new Academy Research Fellows. Academy of Finland awarded Emilia Peuhu and Hongbo Zhang as Research Fellows for the period 01.09.2019 Read more