Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Unit organizes in October-November a PGE course called "Early life exposures in relation to health: Clinical and molecular insights". Responsible teacher of the course is professor Kirsi Laitinen (Nutrition and Food Research Center).
Stem cells and progenitor cells play an important role in the renewal of multiple tissues. Professor Jyrki Heino’s research group from the University of Turku together and Professor Fiona Watt´s research group from King’s College London have discovered a molecule called embigin on the surface of epithelia progenitor cells and proven its significance to sebaceous gland function.
The Cancer Drug Resistance laboratory is looking for two doctoral candidates to join a new and exciting research group in the University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
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.