Institute of Biomedicine - News

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have found a potential neuroprotective effect of a protein modification that could be a therapeutic target in early Alzheimer’s disease.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment announced yesterday 24 new Academy Research Fellow posts and 33 new Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

Researchers can now investigate individual leukaemia cells to find out what makes them resistant to treatment. “Single-cell technologies provide an immense amount of new information on the diversity of cancer cells,” says Merja Heinäniemi, Professor of Computational Biomedicine.

Can vitamin D supplementation prevent cancer, diabetes or COVID-19? Recent research has yielded both hope, disappointments and new questions.

The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally.

Increasing vigorous physical activity reduces cardiometabolic risk factors already in primary school children, according to the doctoral thesis of Juuso Väistö, MHSc.

A new review reveals insights into the potential drivers of a currently incurable eye disease, age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

A new study used modern single-cell technology to investigate the characteristics of leukaemia cells in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and how they respond to treatment.

The University of Eastern Finland’s doctoral conferment ceremony at the Kuopio Campus is postponed to 9–11 June 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The doctoral thesis of Prosanta Singha, MSc, focuses on approaches to find affordable and effective ways to study and target different enzymes that have clear role in human disease, for example, cancer.