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 cancer cells that promote malignancy…
MD and associate professor Sami Ventelä receives a grant of 300,000€ from the Jane and Aatos Erkko foundation
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 is a great recognition for…
Sticky cell fingers help keep breast tumours contained
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. At the early…
Dissertation Defence: MSc Nirman Poudel
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, the crystal structures…
Turku Bioscience research reveals novel biomarkers for cancer therapy stratification
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…
The Turku Screening Unit is now a partner site of EU-OPENSCREEN
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…
Frontiers of Science seminars start again October 6th
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) or in Aurum, Argentum auditorium…
Heli Jokela receives 45 209€ funding from Sakari Alhopuro foundation
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 consequences – especially type 2…
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
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, to understand how complex biological…
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
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 fungal and bacterial infections, dysregulation…