InFLAMES: PET Scanner Reveals Inflammation in Tissue
InFLAMES (Innovation Ecosystem based on the Immune System) is a Finnish research flagship that aims at identifying novel drug targets using the most modern technological platforms and finding novel diagnostic tools to identify the patients benefitting from personalised therapies.
Turku PET Centre Introduces New Total-Body PET Scanner
The new total-body PET scanner has been introduced at the Turku PET Centre. This new generation of medical imaging devices offers novel methods for studying diseases that affect the entire body, not only a single organ. Such diseases include diabetes, coronary artery disease, and multiple sclerosis. For the patient, being able to use the new device means a lower amount of radiation and a shorter scanning time.
University of Turku Successful in the Research Infrastructure Funding Calls of the Academy of Finland
Researchers from the University of Turku have been granted research infrastructure funding by the Academy of Finland. The largest funding was granted to the imaging infrastructure led by Professor Juhani Knuuti and the hydrology infrastructure lead by Professor Petteri Alho. Overall, eight projects with researchers from the University of Turku received funding.
New Cyclotron Fixes the Bottleneck at Turku PET Centre
Turku PET Centre is taking a giant leap into a new era. The Centre has purchased a new cyclotron and now it can produce radioactive isotopes much faster than before. Now, Turku is climbing to the top in positron emission tomography (PET) on a worldwide scale.
Comprehensive PET Imaging of the Blood Flow
A group of researchers from the University of Turku and National Cerbral & Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, are searching a way to image the blood flow in different human organs and the function of the tissues with PET equipment.
Research Presentation in Three Minutes – Cheer Your Favourite to Victory in the 3MT Competition
Who can summarise their research in the most compelling way in only three minutes? Come and find out in the University’s third Three Minute Thesis competition on Wednesday, 27 February. The competition is held at Turku School Economics in the OP lecture hall at 12.15pm, and the event is open for the public.
Brown Fat a Possible Aid in Weight Control
The activation or increasing the amount of brown adipose tissue, i.e. brown fat, could be a new way to control weight. The new findings that were presented in the Turku PET Symposium give indications that help is at hand. For example, being exposed to cold can activate the brown fat.
According to Docent Kirsi Virtanen, what the researchers are studying at the moment is whether we can improve the function of brown fat to advance weight loss and decrease obesity.
Finnish Biomedical Imaging Node Accepted to the Euro-BioImaging Research Infrastructure
Finnish Biomedical Imaging Node FiBI has been accepted as a service-providing Node to the pan-European Euro-BioImaging consortium for imaging technologies. The new Node improves the prerequisites for conducting high quality research and increases the researchers’ opportunities for international collaboration.
Biostatistics
The Department of Biostatistics offers teaching in biostatistics to the undergraduate students of biomedicine, medicine and dentistry as well as teaching in statistics to the undergraduate students of nursing sciences. The department also teaches biostatistics to the post-graduate students and researchers of the Faculty of Medicine and offers them statistical consultation.
University of Turku Receives Strategic Funding of €6.8 M in the Profi 6 Call
The Academy of Finland has made the funding decisions to strengthen the research-related profiling of Finnish universities. The University of Turku was granted €6.8 million of the Profi 6 funding. The funding supports strategic, cross-disciplinary research of the University.