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Andrew Agbaje’s abstract on the effect of childhood sedentariness on liver health was selected for an Outstanding Abstract Award at the Endocrine Society’s ENDO 2024 congress in Boston.

In a new multinational study, persons with very early Alzheimer's disease showed a reduced rate of cognitive-functional decline after a six-month multidomain lifestyle intervention combined with medical food.

The Karelia University of Applied Sciences, the Savonia University of Applied Sciences and the University of Eastern Finland have a joint mentoring programme, which has been running since 2018.

The study explored thinking skills and possible grade-level differences therein in children attending comprehensive school in Finland. The researchers investigated 6th, 7th and 9th graders’ metacognitive knowledge in the context of mathematics.

UNITE Flagship researchers are strongly present at the IUFRO World Congress with the theme Forests & Society Towards 2050.

A healthy diet that adheres to nutrition recommendations is associated with better blood glucose levels and a lower risk of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, also in individuals with a high genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes.

The FORMEC 2025 conference will be held in Joensuu on 9–13 June 2025, with the forest machine manufacturer Ponsse as the main partner. FORMEC is the largest annual forest technology conference in Europe.

Scientific Councils have granted a total of 10.5 million euros of funding to 9 new Academy Research Fellows and to 11 Academy Projects at the University of Eastern Finland.