Institute of Biomedicine - News

Preventing lipid metabolism dysfunction from childhood may support not only cardiovascular health, but also healthy brain development.

Leading international experts present the latest research and envisage the future at the Kuopio Neuroscience 50 Years symposium on 15–17 June 2026.

“I don’t think many programmes give you this kind of exposure to both academia and business,” said doctoral researcher Ahmed Mohamed at the kick-out event of the Neuro-Innovation doctoral programme.

Lithium chloride may affect many cellular level changes in Alzheimer’s disease, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

A total of 24 professors will give inaugural lectures on the key themes of their research.

Instead of a few lab tests, thousands or even millions of molecular features can be measured simultaneously from a single patient with today’s technologies. Fortino's research groups develops computational methods to help interpret this complex information.

Nanoparticles can significantly enhance the delivery of different types of drugs. The PhD study showed there are many different aspects of nanoparticles that can be optimised.

Tumour cells and macrophages in their microenvironment are in constant interaction with one another. Understanding these interaction mechanisms is essential for identifying new targets for cancer therapy.

Academy Research Fellow Lu Cheng is Co-Principal Investigator in the RamanProSeq project exploring plasmonic nanopore technologies for automatic manipulation and Raman spectroscopic sequencing of single proteins.

In the early 2000s, 11 per cent of those studied had prediabetes, whereas 20 years later, the prevalence of prediabetes was 50 per cent.