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By combining the university's cutting-edge research capabilities with Ferring Ventures SA’s industry expertise, the partnership aims to accelerate the development of new precision medicine, specifically cell therapy treatments.

The new facility specialises in the production of a gene therapy drug for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Sui Huang, an esteemed Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), has started as a new UEFDiPro Professor. One focus of the project is plasma proteomics, which offers a clinically novel and useful window to systems health and disease states.

As many as one in three adults in Finland have steatotic liver disease. “This threat should be addressed properly, as there are ways to alleviate the situation,” says Ville Männistö, Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Eastern Finland.

New UEF Research Fellows have begun their work in September 2024.

A Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair grant in Health Sciences has enabled Associate Professor Julie Goodwin to start new research on children’s blood pressure based on recent data from Finland.

The PhD study demonstrates the importance of multiple drug discovery approaches when searching for a drug that has a beneficial disease modifying effect on TBI outcome.

Floro Cubelo was awarded for his innovative idea in dementia care, the Memory Passport.

UEF's role is to develop viral vector-based gene transfer methods for rare cardiovascular diseases, drug manufacturing and testing, and to contribute to repairing faulty genes through gene surgery using the latest gene editing technology.

Professor Markus Forsberg has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor Marja Laasonen Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty for the period 1 January to 31 December 2025.