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Minerva Foundation Media release The Minerva Foundation’s Medix Prize awarded to a research group of the University of Helsinki NEW DATA ON THE MODES OF ACTION OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS The Minerva Foundation’s Medix Prize for 2022 awarded to a research group from the University of Helsinki. The research group produced new data on the modes ofContinue reading “Media release – MEDIX PRIZE 2022”

Award Ceremony and Lecture on Monday, September 12, at 12:15 The prize lecture is presented by  Research Director Eero CastrénNeuroscience Center, University of Helsinki “Antidepressant drugs act by directly binding to TRKB neurotrophin receptors.” Hybrid seminar: Lecture Hall 2 (BM1, P floor) or Zoom (https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419) Media release: https://minervafoundation.fi/2022/09/12/media-release-medix-prize-2022/ Host: Vesa Olkkonen The Medix Prize by the Minerva Foundation is anContinue reading “Medix Prize of the Minerva Foundation 2022”

MITOCHONDRIA AND LIPID DROPLETS October 24 – 25, 2022, Hanaholmen, Espoo, Finland – Hybrid event Registration for the event has closed.Additional information will be sent to those who have registered closer to the event. Symposium program The Symposium is free of charge for participants.

The 2022 Ralph Gräsbeck Scholarship for Research in Laboratory Medicine is awarded to M.D., Dr.Med.Sci, Docent Oscar Brück at Helsinki University Hospital. The Ralph Gräsbeck Scholarship is granted to Brück for his research “The cytomorphological digital twin“. The Ralph Gräsbeck Scholarship is awarded every other year for a scientist who has defended his/her doctoral thesisContinue reading “Ralph Gräsbeck Scholarship for Research in Laboratory Medicine – Decision 2022”

From Selma and Maja-Lisa Selander’s fund 23 grants were awarded, in total 120.500 EUR.

Medix Prize – Proposal period 1.4. – 2.5.2022 Ralph Gräsbeck Grant – Application period 1.4. – 2.5.2022 Selma and Maja-Lisa Selander’s Fund – Application period 1.4. – 2.5.2022

The 2021 Bror-Axel Lamberg Prize in Endocrinology is awarded to Professor Olle Kämpe at Department of Medicine (Solna), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The prize is 10.000€ and this was the third time the prize was awarded.The award ceremony took place on Thursday, 4 November 2021, on the 74th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Endocrine Society. TheContinue reading “Minerva Foundation’s Bror-Axel Lamberg Prize in Endocrinology 2021”

Award Ceremony and Lectures on Monday September 20 at 12 noon The Minerva Foundation’s Medix Prize 2021 is awarded to an article published in Cell by research groups of the University of Helsinki:Maternal Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Cesarean-Born Infants Rapidly Restores Normal Gut Microbial Development: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Korpela K, Helve O, Kolho KL, SaistoContinue reading “Medix Prize 2021 awarded to research groups of the University of Helsinki”

Award Ceremony and Lecture on Monday, September 20, at 12:00. HiLIFE Webinars – Fall 2021 – Join the webinar https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/63015516737 The award lecture will be in the area of gut microbiota. Media release is published on September 20, 2021. The Medix Prize by the Minerva Foundation is an important annual award for internationally high-level Finnish medicalContinue reading “The Minerva Foundation’s Medix Prize 2021”