SYS-LIFE postdoctoral programme announced the selected fellows and their projects for the first call of the programme. The next call will be opened during autumn 2024.
A total of 11 promising researchers have been chosen in the first call of the SYS-LIFE research programme to lead innovative projects focused on improving cardiometabolic and brain health.
The selected researchers and their research topics are as follows:
- Nitin Bayal: The mediating impact of gut microbiome on Executive Function: a multi-assay analysis
- Jarkko Johansson: Normative dopaminergic function and activation of cognitive control: neuroimaging studies across the lifespan
- Yaxing Meng: Life course blood pressure and cardiovascular prevention
- David Molnar: Morphological and functional characterization of the pericoronary epicardial adipose tissue in atherosclerosis and its incremental diagnostic value
- Dattatray Mongad: Multi-omic characterization of gut microbiome dysbiosis and resistome: implications for cardiovascular risk
- Sanaz Nazari Farsani: Identifying prior and novel undetected stroke lesions in suspected CAD patients through total-body PET/CT imaging and generative deep learning
- Mika Ogawa: The relationship between oral health, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease: a dental anxiety perspective
- Oluwafemi Ojo: Defining the role of HSD17B12 in body adiposity regulation and PCOS-related metabolic dysfunction
- Suman Vimal: Proteomic evaluation of stress granules and processing bodies in the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation
- Jiawei Yang: AI for heart monitoring using exercise-aware wearables (Exercise4Heart)
- Li-Fang Yeo: Gut micRobiome and Metabolome in modulating Blood Pressure (GRuMBP)
SYS-LIFE (Systemic approaches to improve cardiometabolic and brain health during lifespan) offers postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to lead groundbreaking research projects by leveraging the unique resources of the University of Turku. The programme brings together the expertise of five different faculties and research units to drive breakthroughs in human health and develop future leaders.
The next application call for the SYS-LIFE programme will open in autumn 2024.
The programme has a consortium agreement with Turku University Hospital, Business Turku, Siemens Healthineers and Ghent University and is open to welcoming new partnerships.
SYS-LIFE, Systemic Approaches to Improve Cardiometabolic and Brain Health during Lifespan is Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral programme cofunded by University of Turku and European union (project 101126611) in 2023–2028. SYS-LIFE supports excellent international early and mid-career stage researchers by providing 22 three-year bottom-up project grants in cardiometabolic and brain research, complemented with training and possibility for secondments outside academia. SYS-LIFE partners include Turku University Hospital, Business Turku, Siemens Healthineers and Ghent University.
> Read more about the programme on the SYS-LIFE website
For further information, contact sys-life@utu.fi
