Faculty of Health Sciences - News

This year’s awardees are Senior Researcher Hanna Laako, Project Manager Anna Logrén, the SOLDEX project, the Peat & Trees – Peatland and Soil Ecology Research Group, and the Department of Nursing Science.

The exceptional donation from the estate of Martti Miettinen, a farmer from Lapinlahti, supports doctoral researchers at the Kuopio campus.

A new study among more than 1,500 British adolescents is the first in the world to assess the association between familial cardiometabolic diseases and the offspring’s risk of premature heart damage by early adulthood.

The Research Council of Finland has granted funding to strengthen R&D activities in wellbeing services counties, for clinical research, and for research into forest biomass in Finland and into sustainable energy solutions of the future.

The Foundations' Post Doc Pool awarded some 1.39 million euros to 26 postdoctoral scholars on 3 December 2025.

Venla Olsson’s first duties as Kuopio Brain & Mind’s new regional manager include preparations for the Kuopio Neuroscience 50 Years symposium taking place next summer.

The Brain Research Society of Finland (BRSF) will hold its biennial conference, Neuroscience Finland 2025, in the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki on 3–4 December.

Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that social support plays an important role in health and well-being in later life.

The institute is hiring talented researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The findings shed light on how traffic-related air pollution could contribute to brain inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.