Professor Simon Goodman visits our University next week, October 11-15 .10. Goodman has done an extensive and impressive career in drug development and has been invited to Turku as a…
Frontiers of Science seminar program is ready for autumn 2021
BioCity Turku arranges every semester Frontiers of Science seminar series where researchers are welcome to invite prominent international scientists to give a talk to local scientific community. The seminars are…
BioCity Symposium is just behind the corner!
Yearly BioCity Symposium is almost here! We have decided to prolong the registration time with one week, until Friday 13th August 15:00. Register here! . We have waited as…
InFLAMES Flagship Receives Four More Experts as Visiting Professors
The InFLAMES Flagship of the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University has invited four recognised experts in their fields as visiting professors. The expertise in the Flagship will be…
Pertussis More Common in Europe than Previously Thought
Although vaccination programmes against pertussis are very effective in Europe, new Finnish study shows that the disease is still very common among middle-aged adults in various European countries. At the…
Novel Antibody Drug Wakes Up the Body’s Defense System in Advanced-stage Cancer
Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, showed that the antibody treatment reactivates the immune defense in patients with advanced-stage cancer. The treatment alters the function of the body’s phagocytes…