Keyword: University Communications

The new United States Ambassador to Finland Charles C. Adams, Jr. visited the University of Turku on his first trip outside of Helsinki on 9 September.

A comparison between the Finnish universities reveals that the researchers at the University of Turku produced most peer-reviewed publications in relation to person-years in 2014.

The popularity of the English science lectures has surprised the organisers. Science Café, which was established a year ago, has attracted 60–200 participants every few weeks. The first anniversary event of Science Café explores what kind of information search engines, social media and other aspects of the digital world gather about their users.

In his speech for the new academic year at the Opening Ceremony of the University of Turku, Rector Kalervo Väänänen highlighted sensible profiling, increasing collaboration between universities and finding new sources of funding by commercialising research results and making new openings in education.

University of Turku researchers developed a winning solution for predicting overall survival of patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), treated with first-line anti-mitotic chemotherapy. The primary benefit of this Challenge will be to establish new quantitative benchmarks for prognostic modeling in mCRPC, with a potential impact for clinical decision making and ultimately improving the design of future clinical trials.

A group of Peruvian university lecturers and students visited the University of Turku in August to learn about sensory evaluation research in the University's sensory laboratory. The visit was part of a joint project that aims to create a doctoral programme in food science and a centre of excellence for native food plants of the Andes in the National Agrarian University of La Molina in Peru.

This year's Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize has been awarded to Professor Rikard Holmdahl. Professor Holmdahl is partially active in the University of Turku (MediCity) and collaborates extensively with University of Turku researchers on autoimmune disease research.

​Professor Rikard Holmdahl

There are fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2016 onwards. The call for applications is open from 1 September to 18 September. The application process is carried out electronically for the first time.

The University of Turku bid for organising the conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), winning against Prague and Barcelona. Turku was chosen as the host of the 2019 conference in this year's conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 14 August. The ESEB conference will be organised in the Logomo event centre, Turku, on 19–24 August 2019.

Researchers in Turku Centre for Biotechnology have developed a new computational approach for detecting biomarkers in patient samples. The developed method detects genetic markers that have implication e.g. in predicting cancer patient prognosis and is a powerful tool for analyzing latest genome-wide technologies like RNA-sequencing. The study has recently appeared in the journal of Nucleic Acids Research.