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Rector Kalervo Väänänen of the University of Turku has appointed Professor Anne Kumpula as the Dean of the Faculty of Law.

The University of Turku was ranked as 285th in the latest QS World University Ranking. QS Ranking ranked 1,000 universities after analysing the information of 4,000 institutions.

Challenge Turku is a 24 hour innovation camp organised by Brahea Centre in collaboration with the City of Turku on a yearly basis since 2013. Participants can join from all higher education institutions in Turku and work in multidisciplinary teams to find innovative ways to solve a given challenge focused on areal development work in the Turku region.

​Student mentor Mac Nguyen, student participants Thuy Nguyen, Taisia Sycheva, Ngan Dao and Project Coordinator Heli Brander.

Doctoral Candidate Khalil Shahramian from the Institute of Dentistry of the University of Turku won the Three Minute Thesis competition for European universities. Shahramian and three other doctoral candidates competed to win the 3MT Competition at the Annual Conference of Coimbra Group in Salamanca on 1 June.

​In the Turku competition, Shahramian won both the votes of the judges and the audience.

Women are more prone to the development of autoimmune diseases. The female hormone estrogen is likely to affect the immune system. A team of scientists from Turku Center for Biotechnology and University of Georgia reported new findings related to the involvement of estrogen hormone receptor in autoimmune diseases.

​Histological image of colon sections from mice that received T cells from CD4-creERafl/fl mice.

The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes nosocomial infections. Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered that the bacterium attaches to plastic medical devices using tiny finger-like structures. The researchers were able to develop antibodies that prevent the bacterial spread.

As part of the ongoing “Strategic Intellectual Property Management for Effective Research & Innovation in Asian Higher Education” project, a delegation from the Indonesian Syiah Kuala University visited the University of Turku on 22‒24 May 2018. During the visit, the University of Turku and Syiah Kuala University signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The Rector has decided on granting funding for nationally significant, both physical and digital research materials and for the organising and maintaining of new or already existing data.

The Academy of Finland has selected ten new Academy Professors for the period of 1 Jan 2019–31 Dec 2023. From the University of Turku, Director of the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor Olli Raitakari was awarded an Academy Professorship.

Researchers at the University of Turku have developed a synthetic SensoGlow™ material that detects the quantity and quality of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun or other sources. This material makes it possible to produce an affordable, versatile, and long-lasting UV radiation detector which can be used to monitor the UV radiation dose with a mobile app, for example.