Faculty of Health Sciences - News

The findings open the door for microbiome-based precision therapies for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and complex metabolic disorders.

The Excellent Teaching Practitioner 2025 Awards were presented at the UEF Learning Environment Seminar on 19 August.

The conference themes are Children, exercise, and planetary health, as well as Long-term athletic development in a changing world.

A novel drilling plate simulating the tactile and structural properties of natural human dental tissues may provide dental students with increasingly realistic training opportunities in the preclinical phase.

“Investing in hearing care can also help prevent memory disorders,” Professor Aarno Dietz pointed out in a workshop organised by the Hearing Valley project and the UEF Brain Research Unit.

Tutkimus syventää ymmärrystä siitä, miten hypoksia vaikuttaa geenisäätelyyn sydän- ja verisuonisairauksissa, ja nostaa esiin KDM-entsyymit mahdollisina uusina lääkehoitojen kohteina.

YUFE Ideas Lab is championing a new wave of European student entrepreneurs.

Automated insulin delivery pumps significantly improved quality of life and reduced diabetes-related complications.

Professor Tarja Malm has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the WAVEAD project focusing on the development of novel methods for measuring the electrical activity of the brain.

Inhibition of the lipid kinases PIKfyve and PIP4K2C provides a potentially higher barrier to resistance than conventional therapies and could be beneficial in the treatment of diseases particularly in the case of emerging viruses.