A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences - News

The University of Eastern Finland has recruited new staff scientists who specialise in research infrastructure and research methodology.

The Young Researcher Awards were presented to Pauliina Lukinmaa, Atte Eskelinen, Juan Miguel Valverde Martínez and Rosemary Mwanza.

The goal of the GEREMY consortium is to find a cure for inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a rare cardiac disease.

Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit (Kuopio-BIU) provides open-access services for research and imaging.

The results of Isidore Mushimiyimana's PhD study not only offer new therapeutic approaches for vascular diseases, but also have the potential to benefit a wide range of diseases.

The UEF opened fall 2022 an internal call for Proof of Concept (PoC) funding to accelerate the commercialization of ideas emerging from research.

The annual incidence rate of frontotemporal dementia in Northern Savo was more than twice the European average.

A novel image segmentation method was developed for mouse and rat brain MRI. In addition, the PhD study showed that previous automated methods introduce a bias for healthy anatomy.

The nasal vaccine is based on research carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland.

“In Alzheimer's disease, the olfactory mucosa is affected by similar changes as those occurring in the brain,” Katja Kanninen says.