Keyword: Turku Bioscience Centre

Access to research hardware remains a global challenge and it impacts also researchers in high-income countries. The availability of hardware may be limited due to lack of funding, slow acquisition processes, geographic distance, and many scientific hardware solutions are not commercially available at all. To solve this issue the open source hardware (analogous to open source software) are being developed to facilitate hardware access, dissemination, and reproducibility. 

University of Turku researcher Jonna Alanko has received the Young Investigator Award of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology. The award is given for high-quality immunological research and promotion of the field of immunology. Alanko studies the movement of immune cells in tissues.

Professor Riitta Lahesmaa was awarded Johnny Ludvigsson Prize for Outstanding Nordic Researcher. The prize is awarded annually by the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Foundation to a Nordic researcher who has conducted groundbreaking research on type 1 diabetes.

The Frontiers of Science seminar program for autumn 2025 is now ready. All seminars take place on-site in Presidentti auditorium in BioCity at 12:00, with coffee and sandwiches served before each seminar.

Researchers developed a diagnostic test based on the LIMA1-alpha protein to distinguish patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who can be cured with surgery alone, without the need for radiation or chemotherapy.

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has selected Professor Riitta Lahesmaa from the University of Turku as its member. The organisation annually elects new members based on scientific merit.

Senior Researcher Pekka Postila from the University of Turku and InFLAMES Flagship has been awarded  €120,000 Investigator Award from the California-based SynGAP Research Fund to investigate the effects of missense mutations on the SynGAP1 protein. Additionally, Doctoral Researcher Aliaa E. Ali has received full two-year PhD funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for her work on SynGAP1 modeling.

This year, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity in 28–29 August 2025, with the title Transforming Drug Development for Tomorrow. Registration is open until Friday, 15 August 2025.