Faculty of Health Sciences - News

Inhibition of the PREP enzyme was successful in stopping the progression of frontotemporal dementia in a mouse model of the disea. It also reduced the accumulation of Tau protein in neurons, which is typical of dementias.

There has been a gap in knowledge on the effect of sedentary time and physical activity on cardiac structure and function in large adolescent populations.

The altered metabolites play a role in inflammation, which is also recognized as a possible mechanism of trauma.

The subject of the PhD thesis was Communication factors contributing to medication incidents in hospitals.

The new artificial intelligence method produces computational images that very closely resemble those produced by the actual chemical staining process.

A new study sheds light on the mechanisms of neural plasticity induced by the antidepressant fluoxetine.

New drugs are constantly being developed for breast cancer. In the future, artificial intelligence will be used to assess individual risk for cancer. Liquid biopsy, on the other hand, reveals the risk of cancer recurrence.

UEF, together with Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund, will organise the 8th Karelia Symposium under the theme “Food from Wood” in Joensuu on 25 April 2023.

The new protocol can be used, for example, to form a basis for multi-centre studies in the future.

First-in-human clinical trials have been initiated at Kuopio University Hospital with a device that assists in the identification of cancerous tissue during surgery.