A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences - News

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

Extracellular ATP is a powerful trigger of migraine, but the endogenous gaseous transmitter hydrogen sulfide known by its unpleasant smell prevents ATP-induced nociception, according to the doctoral thesis of Kseniia Koroleva.

A new study using induced pluripotent stem cell technology links astrocyte dysfunction to Parkinson’s disease pathology.

The doctoral thesis of Nikita Mikhailov, MSc, addresses several key mechanisms behind migraine pain at its origin site – in the meninges covering brain.

The doctoral thesis of Elias Ylä-Herttuala, MSc, demonstrates the feasibility of new magnetic resonance imaging relaxation time methods in the diagnostics of myocardial infarction without contrast agents.