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Academy Research Fellow Vittorio Fortino has been awarded a grant by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation for the research project Combining multi-omics data and AI for disease subtype and drug discoveries.

The Frontiers in Health Sciences seminar series will continue in October–December 2021 with online lectures by leading Finnish scientists. The lectures are open to all.

Urban participants in an exercise intervention for older women in Kuopio, eastern Finland, were healthier and had better functional capability at baseline than non-participants and uninvited rural women, according to new findings from the Kuopio Fall Prevention Study.

Liquid biopsy can help to identify breast cancer patients with a poor prognosis earlier and more accurately than before, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows.

You, too, could be suffering from fatty liver – even if you don’t drink any alcohol. Often, weight gain causes fat to build up in the liver, but also genes, gut microbes, and even environmental chemicals play a role.

Some migrant-origin women have a lower likelihood of cervical cancer screening participation and some groups are unaware of the screening programmes in Finland.

The first sub-project of the FinnGen study to invite participants for further clinical examinations will begin in eastern Finland.

An increase in angiogenesis is a feature of epithelial ovarian carcinoma, according to the doctoral dissertation of Minna Sopo, Lic Med.

The doctoral dissertation of Juha Onatsu, Lic Med, assesses the use of inflammatory, neuro-axonal and imaging biomarkers in stroke patients.

The FINGER study is set to continue with a follow-up study conducted in Oulu, Kuopio, Seinäjoki, Turku, and Helsinki.