Courses in the Master's Degree Programme in Biomedical Sciences
Courses in Biomedical Imaging
How to handle, analyze and understand your biomedical images? Four online courses in biomedical image analysis are available in open university studies at the University of Turku. Courses are targeted to master or doctoral level students in biomedicine and other relevant disciplines, but also professionals from working life are welcome to these interesting and topical courses! Courses are fully online and implemented in DigiCampus Moodle platform.
- Basic Bioimage Informatics 5 ECTS credits
Basics of image processing and analysis in the point of view of life scientist. The course will not be held in the 2026 - 2027 academic year.
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- Automated Bioimage Analysis 4 ECTS credits
The course focuses on how to handle multi-dimensional images and how automation enables analysis of big datasets. The course will not be held in the 2026 - 2027 academic year.
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- Quantitative Histopathology 4 ECTS credits
The course concentrates on how to quantitate histopathological images using different image processing and analysis tools.The course will not be held in the 2026 - 2027 academic year.
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Courses in Drug Discovery and Development
- Antibody Therapeutics 3 ECTS credits
Online course according to preliminary information in February - March 2027. The course focuses on the possibilities of antibodies as therapeutic agents providing the student with knowledge on the origin and structure of antibodies, on their molecular and pharmacological properties as well as on the key biotechnological methods used to develop and produce of them.
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Registration for the course: See the prerequisites in the study guide. Quota 7 students. Students are selected in order of registration.
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- Disease Model Pathology 5 ECTS credits
Online course according to preliminary information in February-March 2027. The course covers basic pathology such as inflammation, cell injury and neoplasia, as well as ow human diseases can be understood with the help of mouse models.
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Registration for the course: See the prerequisites in the study guide. Quota 10 students. Students are selected in order of registration.
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