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Mammography screening programme for 40-year-old women and for 70-year-old women has significantly decreased the breast cancer mortality rate. The doctoral dissertation research of med. lic. Ilmo Parvinen also proves that claims about overdiagnosis are incorrect. On the basis of his research, Parvinen recommends extending the screening programme to older women aged 70–74.

​Mammography image of a breast.

Tianjin People’s Congress delegation from China visited Turku and the University on 11 November 2014. Turku and Tianjin are twin towns and their universities have co-operation in the fields of training and research.

Tianjin People’s Congress delegation visited the University of Turku

Researchers from the University of Turku discovered how the highly aggressive Escherichia coli, i.e. the E. coli bacteria, colonise the human intestine. Based on the discovery, the researchers are developing antibodies that could stop the infection caused by the bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

In the future, food development students can have an MSc Tech degree both from the University of Turku and Jiangnan University. Completing the double degree requires studying in both countries and the courses studied must fill the requirements of both universities.

Next year, Fudan Nordic Centre celebrates its 20th anniversary. The member universities’ meeting for the preparation of the celebration is held in Turku.

​Fudan Nordic Centre Council meeting in Shanghai.

The Centre for East Asian Studies organised a Japanese Speech Event for the first time on Tuesday 28 October. 13 students took part in the competition.

​The Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Kenji Shinoda, opened the competition.

– Without the University of Turku, my scientific career would never have continued, says Stefan Hell and ”raises” a glass of champagne via telephone to the crowd gathered in the break room of the Laboratory of Biophysics at the University of Turku.

​Stefan Hell published the idea of the Stimulated Emission Depletion, i.e. STED, microscopy for the first time in 1994 when he was working in the University of Turku.

The agreements will support joint research, development and educational projects and promote the researcher, teacher, staff and student mobility.

– Dr. House was purposefully based on Sherlock Holmes, Fulbright researcher Dr. Martha Lee Alexander stated at the beginning of her presentation in the American Voices seminar. The presentation underlined the fact that, in the case both characters, the hero is far from perfect.

​In her presentation, Dr. Martha Lee Alexander discussed Dr.House and Sherlock Holmes.

The University of Turku Doctor Honoris Causa Stefan W. Hell is one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the developers of optical microscopes with high resolution at the nanometer scale.

​Stefan W. Hell, who worked at the University of Turku as a researcher in the 1990s, was conferred as doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Turku in the spring of 2009.