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In the future, a growing number of neurodegenerative diseases could ideally be treated with the same drug, says Timo Myöhänen, the University of Eastern Finland’s newly appointed Professor of Pharmacology and Drug Development.
Docent of Neurosurgery Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, MD, MSc (Tech), LLM, MSc (Econ. & Bus. Adm.), has been appointed as Director of Neurocenter Finland.
Marja Laasonen has been appointed as Professor of Logopedics as of 1 June.
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen’s work at the University of Eastern Finland Law School is pioneering: no similar professorship exists in Finland nor abroad.
Societal policy measures and individual choices both play a role in moving towards sustainable well-being, Professor Arto O. Salonen says.
Researchers can now investigate individual leukaemia cells to find out what makes them resistant to treatment. “Single-cell technologies provide an immense amount of new information on the diversity of cancer cells,” says Merja Heinäniemi, Professor of Computational Biomedicine.
In the health and social services reform, a good manager knows how to connect different pieces and hold them together.
Research and clinical work with patients generate so much imaging data that their efficient use is impossible without image analysis methods that are based on artificial intelligence. A new image analysis centre to be set up in Kuopio will provide support for patient care as well as for companies and research groups whose work involves imaging.
“The workplace community is an underused resource in health promotion,” Professor of Occupational Health Tuula Oksanen notes.