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Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.
Sami Väänänen, PhD, a researcher at the UEF Department of Applied Physics and a medical physicist at the Kuopio University Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre has been granted Clinical Researcher funding by the Academy of Finland. Väänänen is the first medical physicist to receive this funding, which is usually granted to researchers in medicine or veterinary sciences.
Itä-Suomen yliopisto tukee monin tavoin Suomen Akatemian akatemiatutkijaksi syksyllä 2021 hakevia henkilöitä.
In 2020, the university achieved a good operational and financial result. The coronavirus pandemic and the emergency conditions had an impact on the university’s activities, but the key operational objectives were achieved well.
The funding will be used to promote research activities in areas of significance to the university, which pertain to drug development and discovery, neurosciences, the forest-based bioeconomy, and the development of technologies that make use of photonics.