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Awards were presented to Project Researcher Ville Tahvanainen, UNITE Geotrail research project team, anniversary online communication of the School of Pharmacy, and Director of the Department of Health and Social Management Elsa Paronen.

Funding was granted from the Horizon Europe Programme to the NEMESIS project investigating the role of environmental chemicals as disrupters of normal human metabolism.

The University of Eastern Finland coordinates two funded Flagships, GeneCellNano and UNITE, and is a partner in the ACCC Flagship.

Increased sedentary time from childhood through young adulthood caused increased body fat and abdominal fat. However, light physical activity may completely reverse the adverse process.

UEF’s financial situation is stable, and the revenues and expenses of the budget for 2024 are in balance.

Haptics-enhanced virtual reality training combines virtual simulation with sensory feedback and is increasingly used in dental training in addition to the traditional phantom head simulation.

Bisphosphonates are commonly used to treat, for example, ostoporosis. One approach to mitigate their side effects is to utilize controlled delivery and release systems.

Erkko Ylösmäki is the new CEO of Rokote Laboratories Finland, a research-based company developing a coronavirus vaccine. Clinical trials will start by the end of summer 2024 at the earliest.

The topic the PhD thesis is the study of miRNA genes and their cell-type-specific expression and transcriptional regulation.

A total of 1,403 higher education institutions took part in the sustainability ranking arranged by QS, and the UEF was ranked in 164th overall.