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Researchers at UEF's School of Pharmacy and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare have received a grant of 400,000 US dollars from The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Pain was associated with depressive symptoms and comorbidities and especially daily pain with poor self-rated health, according to the doctoral dissertation of Merja Karjalainen, Lic Med.

3AWater, a technology start-up from Kuopio, Finland, commercializes a solution for fast and easy analytics of metal contents of waters.

The PhD study of Mari Liukka, MHSc, aimed to describe the level of and differences in the patient safety culture in acute and long-term care and to clarify how patient safety incident reports are analysed and what kind of developments have been proposed based on reports.

In her PhD thesis, Krista Taipale-Kovalainen, MSc (Pharm) studied the suitability of a continuous manufacturing process with different configurations and direct-compression and dry-granulated tablet compositions.

The PhD thesis of Suchetana De, MSc, indicates the differences in ethical practices between the global commercial companies selling genetic tests online and the research setting in Finland regarding genetic testing and return of genetic test results.

Alongside Finnish, English is a key language of education, research and administration at the University of Eastern Finland. From the viewpoints of the university’s profile areas and its international collaboration in research and education, Russian is also a language of strategic importance.