School of Pharmacy - News

Funded projects study the role of glial cells in Parkinson’s disease and develop a new drug against resistant bacterial infections.

In her doctoral thesis, Prasanthi Medarametla, MSc (Pharm), validated two novel protein targets involved in bacterial infections and found that these alternative drug targets targeting virulence are a better option in current antibiotic resistance crisis.

The PhD thesis of Emma Heikkinen, MSc (Pharm), provides insights into ocular pharmacokinetics and new approaches for the design of drugs and drug delivery systems.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new and promising drug compound for the treatment of cancer that inhibits natural amino acids from entering cancer cells.