Faculty of Health Sciences - News

New drugs are constantly being developed for breast cancer. In the future, artificial intelligence will be used to assess individual risk for cancer. Liquid biopsy, on the other hand, reveals the risk of cancer recurrence.

UEF, together with Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund, will organise the 8th Karelia Symposium under the theme “Food from Wood” in Joensuu on 25 April 2023.

The new protocol can be used, for example, to form a basis for multi-centre studies in the future.

First-in-human clinical trials have been initiated at Kuopio University Hospital with a device that assists in the identification of cancerous tissue during surgery.

Higher body fat percentage, body mass index, and waist-to-height ratio had a much stronger connection to a higher low-grade inflammation than any physical fitness measure.

The HUMEA Laboratory is an R&D environment for motion and biosignal analysis. Many research-driven corporate spin-offs have emerged from the laboratory.

The PhD study applied a metabolomics approach to examine the metabolic changes in individuals on simvastatin therapy.

The University of Eastern Finland has recruited new staff scientists who specialise in research infrastructure and research methodology.

The methods developed in the PhD study serve as the basis for further development of near real-time brain tissue classification systems.

With Finland's climate getting warmer in the future, what can we expect in terms of pollen? In their search for answers to this question, researchers are looking not only at the present and the future, but also into the past.