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NEW FELLOWS

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We are happy to announce our selected fellows and their projects for SYS-LIFE postdoctroral programme:

  • Nitin Bayal: The mediating impact of gut microbiome on Executive Function: a multi-assay analysis
  • Jarkko Johansson: Normative dopaminergic function and activation of cognitive control: neuroimaging studies across the lifespan
  • Yaxing Meng: Life course blood pressure and cardiovascular prevention
  • David Molnar: Morphological and functional characterization of the pericoronary epicardial adipose tissue in atherosclerosis and its incremental diagnostic value
  • Dattatray Mongad: Multi-omic characterization of gut microbiome dysbiosis and resistome: Implications for cardiovascular risk
  • Sanaz Nazari Farsani: Identifying prior and novel undetected stroke lesions in suspected CAD patients through total-body PET/CT imaging and generative deep learning
  • Mika Ogawa: The relationship between oral health, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease: a dental anxiety perspective
  • Oluwafemi Ojo: Defining the role of HSD17B12 in body adiposity regulation and PCOS related metabolic dysfunction
  • Suman Vimal: Proteomic evaluation of stress granules and processing bodies in pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation
  • Jiawei Yang: AI for heart monitoring using exercise aware wearables (Exercise4Heart)
  • Li-Fang Yeo: Gut micRobiome and Metabolome in modulating Blood Pressure (GRuMBP)

SELECTION COMMITTEE MEETS

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SYS-LIFE Selection Committee held its meeting on the 3rd of June in a sunny and warm Turku campus. Committee members had a busy day in examining the external reviews and compiling an ordered ranking. As a result of their expert input, the position in the fellowship programme is offered to eleven of the highest-ranked applicants. Selected applicants, as well as reserve list applicants, have been notified of their status and rank by email. The results will be made public as soon as all the new positions have been confirmed.
SYS-LIFE team congratulates the new postdoctoral fellows!

More about evaluation and selection on: APPLICATION

Pasi Liljeberg,  Ville Kytö, Kari Kalliokoski, Eero Jokinen, Pekka Hänninen, Georges Kazan, Tapio Lönnberg, Anni Wärri, Sari Stenholm, Harriet Wallberg, Pirjo Nuutila, Markus Juonala, Eeva Rainio, Jyrki Heino, Sanni Helander

SYS-LIFE PARTNERS

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We are happy to announce that SYS-LIFE has finalished a consortium agreement with Turku University Hospital, Business Turku, Siemens Healthineers and Ghent University. We welcome the partnership of all these great entities and look forward to incorporating their expertise with SYS-LIFE. More information about our Partners at ABOUT: PARTNERS.

TYKS

Turku University Hospital (TUH) is the main hospital of the Southwest Finland welfare region. It´s ranked the 58th best hospital in the world and offers a wide range of clinical research options.

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Business Turku

Business Turku (Turku Science Park Ltd, TScP) coordinates business development services within the Turku region in Southwest Finland. The expertise of Business Turku in providing innovation support makes them an ideal choice for supporting the intersectoral aspects of the SYS-LIFE programme.

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Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers pioneers breakthroughs in healthcare. The company is principally active in the areas of imaging, diagnostics, cancer care and minimally invasive therapies, augmented by digital technology and artificial intelligence.

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Ghent University

Ghent University is among the world’s top universities, with 11 faculties including Bioscience Engineering, and Medicine & Health Sciences. UGent will provide research and training support, primarily through the KERMIT research unit within the Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering.

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FIRST CALL SELECTION UPDATE

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As we’re entering proper spring time in Turku, our reviewers are going through the last parts of evaluating the applications for the first call, after which the Selection Committee will have their meeting on the 3rd of June.  The applicants will be notified with information about their reviews and ranking during June. 

Selection Committee

Chair Harriet Wallberg, Professor, Karolinska Institutet

Vice-Chair Eero Jokinen, Professor, Finnish Cardivascular Foundation

Ville Kytö, MD PhD, R&D Director, Wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland

Pekka Hänninen, Dean, UTU

Pasi Liljeberg, Professor, UTU

Pasi Virta, Professor, UTU

Jyrki Heino, Professor, UTU

Pirjo Nuutila, Professor, UTU

Sari Stenholm, Professor, UTU

Kari Kalliokoski, Research Manager, UTU

Tapio Lönnberg, Senior Research Fellow, UTU

Ex officio members

Markus Juonala, Professor, SYS-LIFE Director, UTU

Georges Kazan, Research Manager, SYS-LIFE Vice Director, UTU

Sanni Helander, Coordinator, UTU

Anni Wärri, Development Manager, UTU

Eeva Rainio, Head of Development, UTU

SYS-LIFE GOES TO BRUSSELS

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Last week SYS-LIFE travelled to Brussels to meet our partners at Ghent University, as well as to pay a visit to Nordic House and the Finnish embassy. SYS-LIFE was represented by Director Markus Juonala, Vice Director Georges Kazan, Professor Pasi Liljeberg and Project manager Eeva Rainio.

At Ghent University we had the pleasure to meet SYS-LIFE partner, Professor Bernard De Baets, who leads the Knowledge-based Systems research unit KERMIT, as well as other professors from the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering. We introduced SYS-LIFE programme and Health research at the University of Turku, and got to hear about the strengths and aims of Ghent University’s Faculty of Bioscience Engineering and Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. Afterwards, we did some matchmaking and brainstorming on how to develop SYS-LIFE and Ghent-UTU collaboration.

Ghent University, Campus Coupre

Graslei, Ghent

The next day we visited Nordic House to meet with our Head of EU Affairs at the Turku EU Office, as well as with representatives from Region Skåne and the Greater Copenhagen EU Office, who are also leaders of the Health Working Group ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network). We discussed possibilities on developing collaboration between SYS-LIFE, UTU, their home regions and ERRIN. 
 
Later, we visited the Permanent Representation of Finland to the EU, where we presented SYS-LIFE and UTU Health and learned more about how the Representation works for Finnish research and heard about their present and upcoming activities.

All in all, our visit resulted in plenty of fruitful conversations about how SYS-LIFE can act as a bridge to enhance international collaboration and cultivate interdisciplinary scientific excellence with a wide range of partners. In addition to excellent discussions, we got to enjoy springtime in the beautiful cities of Ghent and Brussels.

Spring in Ghent

SYS-LIFE Director Markus Juonala

FIRST CALL: EVALUATION PERIOD

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First call for SYS-LIFE fellowship in University of Turku has now closed. We want to thank everybody who sent in their application. Those which passed the technical check have now been submitted for the external evaluation and the applicants have been contacted via email. We will keep you posted on the selection process and hope to see you soon here in Turku, Finland!

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SYS-LIFE PROGRAMME, APPLY BY 31 JANUARY 2024

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— a pioneering MSCA Fellowship Programme of the University of Turku in Finland

Systemic approaches to improve cardiometabolic and brain health during lifespan

SYS-LIFE will offer 22 postdoctoral researchers in the field of cardiometabolic and brain health the opportunity to design and lead their own innovative research projects.

Up to 11 SYS-LIFE fellows will be recruited in 2024 & 2025. The duration of each position will be 36 months.

1st Call / 11 positions offered
  • Opening Date:
    5th December 2023
  • Deadline:
    31st January 2024

Research Topics Include:

CARDIOLOGY
INNOVATIONS IN DIAGNOSTICS
GUT MICROBIOME
NEUROSCIENCE
ORAL HEALTH
CELL SIGNALING
DIGITAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
METABOLISM
NUTRITION AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY
POPULATION HELATH RESEARCH

Check the eligibility conditions 

Inform yourself and develop your idea

Contact the receiving supervisor 

Prepare the documents for application 

Submit the application 

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