The University of Turku will educate future experts in Public Mental Health. The new Master’s Degree Programme will welcome its first students in August 2024.
A multidisciplinary team of health communication and health literacy researchers gathered at Aistikattila on Friday, 10 November 2023 for a networking meeting - in a beach atmosphere.
The University of Turku has received over €3.1 million in EU funding for a postdoctoral programme that will recruit 22 international researchers. The purpose of the programme is to make breakthroughs in health-related research and promote postdoctoral researchers’ career development.
Recently nominated Academician of Science, Professor Merja Penttilä, will give a Frontiers of Science lecture in 9 November 2023 in Presidentti auditorium in BioCity.
Biomedical research often occurs in painfully slow pace. Here, as an alternative approach we aim to pilot rapid research and collaboration. This takes a form of an experimental biomedical workshop / mini-hackathon called “SpeedFish” utilizing rapid zebrafish models for cardiovascular biology and disease.
Frontiers of Science Seminar program is ready for autumn 2023. All seminars are on-site only at 12:00 in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium. Coffee and sandwich is served before each seminar.
Registration to BioCity Symposium is open until 11 August 2023. BioCity Symposium is one of the most important meetings in Turku region for researchers working in the fields of bio- and molecular medicine. This year the event is arranged with title Sculpting tissues – Cells, matrix and forces.
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Turku marked its 80th anniversary this year and celebrated its doctors and honorary doctors with a traditional ceremonial conferment of doctoral degrees on 25–27 May 2023.
Early prevention of diseases improves individual health outcomes and the capacity of the healthcare system. A study conducted at the University of Turku aims at discovering breakthroughs for improving public health and seeks pre-emptive ways to prevent diseases.