Research at the Institute of Biomedicine is divided into three functional units: 1) Infection and Immunity, 2) Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology and 3) Cancer research. Research at our Institute includes both biomedical basic research and translational research, and the unit division expresses our research priorities.
We encourage creative interdisciplinary combination of research topics via collaboration of the individual research groups and the three units. In addition, we collaborate locally with clinical researchers, with other institutes of our university and with the Åbo Akademi University. We are also widely networked with numerous national and international universities and public and private research institutes.
Research services
Recent publications
Early-life immunological and microbial differences between East African and North European children (2026)
Communications medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Bone marrow failure, somatic rescue by p53 inactivation, and enhanced leukemogenesis in germ line ERCC6L2 disease (2026)
Blood
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Association between brown adipose tissue activity and clinical outcomes in melanoma: a retrospective PET/CT analysis (2026)
Immuno-Oncology and Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Emerging Microbial Lipid Shifts in a Multistage Simulated Gut Inoculated with Human Fecal Microbiota (2026)
Journal of Proteome Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Aberrantly glycosylated PSMA in urine as a potential marker for prostate cancer (2026)
Clinica Chimica Acta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)