Faculty of Health Sciences - News

The financial statement for 2023 was discussed by the UEF Board on 22 March. The financial statement will be discussed by the University Collegiate Body on 7 May.

The Board of the University of Eastern Finland elected Academic Rector, Professor, LLD Tapio Määttä as the new Rector of the university for the five-year term beginning on 1 January 2025.

This thesis work leveraged transcriptomic and lipidomic approaches to unravel cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning an impaired post-ischemic tissue revascularization and evaluated novel immunomodulatory nanotherapies to rescue this impairment in clinically relevant mouse models.

The University of Eastern Finland awarded Professor Tarja Malm for promoting equality in her research group.

The University of Eastern Finland and the biotechnology company FinVector have signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two to a long-term strategic partnership and to further development of collaboration.

Andrew Agbaje was recognised with the New Investigator Award in Childhood Obesity by the European Association for the Study of Obesity, EASO, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the doctoral education pilots are reforming doctoral education at Finnish universities and fostering increasingly close ties with business and industry.

After a three-year contract as a doctoral researcher, it will be possible to apply for two-year, transitional postdoc funding.

A new study discloses the discovery and application of a new therapeutic strategy to target the multidrug-resistant bacterium Salmonella enterica in vivo, with promising results.

Two research groups at the UEF are part of the new EU-funded MIRACLE network.