TIAS appoints five Postdoctoral Researchers and five Collegium Researchers for the term 2014–2016, and five Postdoctoral Researchers and five Collegium Researchers for the term 2015–2017. Application period is April 22 – May 31, 2013.
The advisory board brings different interest groups to cooperate even more closely with the development of the operations of the School of Economics.
Cardiovascular and metabolic research at the University of Turku studies the origins and prevention of cardiovascular disorders and diabetes among the Finnish population.
Turku PET Centre is a joint effort of the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, and the Hospital District of Southwest Finland.
Researchers from Turku have developed a chemical compound that boosts the effects of allergy vaccination. The effect of the compound has been verified with cell models and animal tests; trials on humans have not yet been conducted.
Dr. Laura Elo, Adjunct Professor in Biomathematics at University of Turku, has received a five-year Career Development Award from JDRF, the world’s leading charitable funder and advocate of Type 1 diabetes research.
The Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize is awarded to an Erasmus student, who has completed an exchange in a member university of the European Coimbra Group and whose graduation the exchange has furthered.
Peter Kivisto is eagerly waiting for the turn of May and June. The Professor of the Augustana College, United States, knows that he will experience two memorable moments then. The University of Turku will confer an honorary doctorate on him and he will, for the first time, step into the childhood home of his Finnish grandfather in Jalasjärvi.
Finland Futures Research Centre affiliates to Turku School of Economics within the University of Turku, and thus acquires the possibility to grant Master’s and Doctor’s degrees.
A dental filling material developed by the Turku Clinical Biomaterials Centre (TCBC) is stronger than dentine.
According to Senior Researcher Samuli Helle, giving birth to boys lowered mother’s lifespan in pre-industrial time. Demographic data collected from Finnish parish registers kept by the Lutheran Church were used as research material.
