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University of Jyväskylä to Award Honorary Doctorate to Johanna Ivaska

September 26, 2025

The University of Jyväskylä will award 11 new honorary doctorates in May 2026. One of them will be Professor Johanna Ivaska, a group leader at Turku Bioscience. The faculties of the University award honorary doctorates Read more

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Turku Metabolomics Core Enhances MALDI Imaging with New Sprayer

September 19, 2025

The Turku Metabolomics Core, part of the Turku Bioscience Centre, has acquired a SunCollect MALDI Sprayer (Sunchrom) with support from the Research Council of Finland, the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, and the European Innovation Council (EIC). Read more

Christel Sourander Successfully Defends Her Thesis

September 9, 2025

Congratulations! Christel Sourander successfully defended her thesis: “Identifying the effect of JNK on neural activity and synaptic plasticity related to anxiety and depressive like behaviours” on September 4th with Prof. Tomi Rantamäki from the University Read more

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Researchers at Åbo Akademi University Discover a New Molecular Switch Regulating Breast Cancer Progression

September 4, 2025

A research group led by our our affiliated group leader Professor Lea Sistonen at Åbo Akademi University has discovered a new mechanism that regulates breast cancer progression. Breast cancer arises when the epithelial cells lining Read more

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What is Bioconductor? And Various Ways of Contributing to This Open-Source Project

September 29, 2025

What is Bioconductor? And Various Ways of Contributing to This Open-Source Project

September 29, 2025

In this seminar, Alexandru Mahmoud will present the open-source project Bioconductor. The talk will present the structure of the Bioconductor community and core team. Also, it will introduce several ways through which community members can Event details

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Olli Kallioniemi

October 2, 2025

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Olli Kallioniemi

October 2, 2025

2nd October at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Olli Kallioniemi, FIMM, HiLife, University of Helsinki, Finland Technology-, data- and AI-driven translational cancer research Host: Klaus Elenius (klaele@utu.fi) Coffee and Event details

Immunology Seminar, Susanna Fagerholm

October 7, 2025

Immunology Seminar, Susanna Fagerholm

October 7, 2025

October 7th at 14-15 (Finland time) Virtual event Flyer Susanna Fagerholm, University of Helsinki: Dendritic cell mechanical immune memory Register for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar invitation to the online seminar: Event details

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Pere Roca-Cusachs

October 9, 2025

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Pere Roca-Cusachs

October 9, 2025

9th October at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Pere Roca-Cusachs, University of Barcelona, Spain Understanding and controlling mechanotransduction, from integrins to the nucleus Host: Johanna Ivaska (johanna.ivaska@utu.fi) Coffee and Event details

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Publications

Annual publications showcasing impactful scientific contributions in leading international journals.

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HSF2 drives breast cancer progression by acting as a stage-specific switch between proliferation and invasion

Jenny C Pessa et al.

Sci Adv. 2025 Sep 5;11(36):eady1289. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ady1289. Epub 2025 Sep 3.

Published on September 3, 2025

Breast cancer is hallmarked by phenotypic transitions enabling abnormal cell proliferation and invasion. The stress-protective transcription factor heat shock factor 2 (HSF2) is associated with Read more

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Breast Milk Proteome: Changes in the Different Stages of Lactation and Impacts of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Body Mass Index

Timo Seitz et al.

Mol Nutr Food Res. 2025 Sep 1:e70225. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.70225. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 2, 2025

Breast milk proteome comprises hundreds of bioactive proteins supporting infant development. The extent to which maternal metabolic conditions modify the proteome is poorly known. This Read more

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Metabolome informs about the chemical exposome and links to brain health

Matej Orešič et al.

Environ Int. 2025 Aug 22;203:109741. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109741. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 1, 2025

The metabolome is an intermediate phenotype, summarizing the profile of all small molecules (

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Designing Fluorescent Estrogen Mimetic 7-hydroxycoumarin Probe Substrates for Human Sulfotransferase Enzymes

Risto O Juvonen et al.

Eur J Pharm Sci. 2025 Aug 28:107249. doi: 10.1016/j.ejps.2025.107249. Online ahead of print.

Published on August 30, 2025

Sulfonation is one of drug metabolism reactions affecting homeostasis of estrogens. C-3 aryl substituted 7-hydroxycoumarins are fluorescent estrogen mimetics; i.e., the hydroxyl groups of both Read more

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Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease in Two Field Spaniels With Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency

Pernilla Syrjä et al.

J Vet Intern Med. 2025 Sep-Oct;39(5):e70223. doi: 10.1111/jvim.70223.

Published on August 27, 2025

Cholesterol ester storage disease (CESD) is a rare genetic lysosomal storage disorder resulting from lower lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) activity. LAL is an essential enzyme Read more

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The impact of conjugation strategies and linker density on the performance of the Spermine-AcDex nanoparticle-splenocyte conjugate

Yuchen Su et al.

RSC Chem Biol. 2025 Jul 30. doi: 10.1039/d5cb00104h. Online ahead of print.

Published on August 18, 2025

A common approach in living medicine engineering is modifying cell surfaces with nanomedicines to form nanoparticle-cell conjugates. Despite various available strategies, limited research has examined Read more

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Turning KRAS Against Itself: A New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

September 9, 2025

We are excited to share the story behind our recent work, published in a scientific journal in 2024, where we uncovered a surprising vulnerability in some of the most aggressive cancers. Our work was one Read more

From the Lab to the Stage: My 3MT Experience

May 20, 2025

I had the opportunity to present my PhD research in the finals of the University of Turku 3MT competition. It was a unique and rewarding experience to summarize my work in under three minutes to Read more

Grateful to Be a Runner-Up in the University of Turku’s 3MT Competition!

March 10, 2025

I am excited and thankful to have been chosen as a Runner-Up in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition at the University of Turku on Wednesday, 5 March 2025. This experience has been thrilling, challenging, Read more