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The University of Eastern Finland receives a total of 1.8 million euros in funding for infrastructure projects. UEF participates five funded consortiums.

The challenge has been launched by the UEF Cancer AI research team with the aim to develop an architecture capable of automatically estimating the breast percentage density from mammograms.

The results of the PhD study improve the understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying inflammasome activation in age-related macular degeneration and UV radiation-induced corneal inflammation.

Professor Jarkko Rautio was granted funding for an Academy Project called “Boosting delivery of LAT1-targeted boron carriers for improved boron neutron capture therapy”.

The University of Eastern Finland together with Karelia and Savonia Universities of Applied Sciences use the well-known education export brand in business-to-business marketing.

A total of 11 Finnish female scientists were ranked in the top 1,000.

Tero Mustonen, Chair of the Snowchange Cooperative and University of Eastern Finland Docent, has been selected as the Alumnus of the Year of the University of Eastern Finland.

Finland has a strong public health care system; nevertheless, personal wealth is associated with the costs of hospital care and medication in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

The results of the PhD study indicated genes that are differentially expressed in hematological cancers and its subtypes, which could serve as potential targets for new targeted therapies.

The PhD thesis assesses the potential and limitations of advanced non-invasive MRI such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate microstructural changes in brain damage pathology.