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The University of Eastern Finland will hold its sixth doctoral conferment ceremony in Kuopio on 5–7 June 2025, conferring a total of 180 doctorates and 15 honorary doctorates.

Opin.fi is a joint service of Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences with a diverse selection of open higher education studies on a single site. The service also provides information on the open studies offered by the University of Eastern Finland.

The doctoral research led to the development new methods, designed to advance the discovery of disease subtypes and facilitate targeted drug development.

The PhD study examined the key success factors in the labour migration and recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) from outside the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) to the Nordic countries.

MSc Olusegun Olaitan Akinyemi's thesis provides methodological insights into sensor and image-based phenotyping for characterization of forest tree responses to environmental and stress conditions in ecophysiological studies.

Bilour Khan, MSc (Tech), focuses on understanding how the optical behavior of cartilage changes based on its depth within the joint and its overall health or level of degeneration.

Agbaje is the first recipient of the new award.

Found in the Finnish population, a rare variant of the TYROBP gene significantly increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study led by the University of Eastern Finland shows.

Research conducted with zebrafish can contribute to personalised medicine approaches, including the selection of the most individually suitable treatments for patients with cancer.

Ylönen currently works as the Director of the Open Science Centre of the University of Jyväskylä.