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Otto Kauko receives Finnish Medical Foundation’s research group founder grant (190 000€)

November 18, 2022

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 Read more

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Election of the personnel’s representative to TBC board

November 17, 2022

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 Read more

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Professor Jukka Westermarck received Orion Research Foundation’s special grant of EUR 100,000

October 27, 2022

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 Read more

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MD and associate professor Sami Ventelä receives a grant of 300,000€ from the Jane and Aatos Erkko foundation

October 25, 2022

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 Read more

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Sticky cell fingers help keep breast tumours contained

October 25, 2022

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. Read more

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Dissertation Defence: MSc Nirman Poudel

October 21, 2022

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, Read more

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Turku Bioscience research reveals novel biomarkers for cancer therapy stratification

October 19, 2022

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 tarkastettavassa väitöskirjassa todettiin kantasolutekijä OCT4:n ilmentymisen olevan yhteydessä pään ja kaulan Read more

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The Turku Screening Unit is now a partner site of EU-OPENSCREEN

October 14, 2022

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 participation of the Zebrafish core, Read more

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Frontiers of Science seminars start again October 6th

September 12, 2022

Frontiers of Science Seminar program is ready for autumn 2022. All seminars are on-site only at 12:00 either in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium (October and November) Read more

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Heli Jokela receives 45 209€ funding from Sakari Alhopuro foundation

September 2, 2022

Heli Jokela received 45 209€ funding from Alhopuro Foundation for her research project titled “Macrophages in brown adipose tissue development and function” Obesity and its pathological Read more

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The Department of Life Technologies at University of Turku has awarded the Title of Docent (Adjunct Professor) in Computational Biology to Senior postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Partho Sen

August 18, 2022

After completing his PhD in ‘Biological Sciences’ (Computational Biology) from the University of Montpellier, France he started his career path in Systems biology and medicine, Read more

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Long intergenic noncoding RNA MIAT regulates human Th17 cell differentiation  and is highly expressed in T cells of inflamed synovia in joints of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients

July 19, 2022

Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNA) are emerging as novel regulators of biological processes, including cell differentiation and development. While Th17 cells are required for clearing Read more