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The Academy of Finland has granted Professor of Environmental Policy Rauno Sairinen 294,759 euros of funding from the Academy Programme Critical Materials in Circular Economy of Cities.

Professor Asla Pitkänen has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the US-based CURE Epilepsy association for research aimed at preventing the development of epilepsy after brain injury.

Kivipelto was awarded for her groundbreaking work on the world’s first global initiative for preventing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. With the prize funding, the researchers will study the potential benefit of metformin treatment added to lifestyle interventions.

The JPND funded project aims to identify early synaptic and other physiological changes in early frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies.

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.

Professor Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen's and Professor Ismo Linnosmaa's research groups are partners in two new consortia of the Strategic Research Council.

The 91���� is a partner in a new, six-year project focusing on knee osteoarthritis, which has been granted approximately 6.7 million euros of funding by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. UEF’s share of the funding amounts to 1.4 million euros.

Kuopio will witness the building of a new, nationally unique laboratory environment where it is possible to process highly hazardous biological agents, such as coronaviruses.

Researchers at UEF's School of Pharmacy and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare have received a grant of 400,000 US dollars from The Michael J. Fox Foundation.