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.
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Recent publications
Polymorphisms in intron 1 of HLA-DRA differentially associate with type 1 diabetes and celiac disease and implicate involvement of complement system genes C4A and C4B (2026)
eLife
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
SparStVR - exploring sparse 3D histology data in virtual reality (2026)
Communications Engineering
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Revealing deep evolutionary relationships between RNA viruses using predicted structural models of viral RNA polymerases (2026)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Fluorine-18 Radiolabeled Single-Chain Antibody Variable Fragment 1F4 Targets α1-Subunit Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptors in Mice (2026)
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Evolving epigenomics of immune cells at single-nucleus resolution in children en route to type 1 diabetes (2026)
Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)