Congratulations Juulia!

Yesterday was a good day, one more student defended herself publicly and became as a freash Ph.D. So congratulations Juulia! It has been such a great journey with you and I have been honored to serve as your co-supervisor! Job well done! 🌹

One more funding for this year!

We have had a great year in funding-wise, I cannot remember if I have told all the grants that our team has received this year, so congratulations to all one more time! The latest was announced only a couple of days ago, when Andy received his first research grant from the Kuopio University Foundation! 🌹

More information about these grant receviers behind this link!

December has also been busy time for all of us, lot of students who want to graduate, which means a lot of reading and organizing things for us. And after all, we also had personal developmental discussions, which in turn means more thinking for me. A lot of good feedback given and received and we already took some actions today and went to have a group lunch out of the campus site! And the present that I got will definitely remind me to take more care of these social events! Thank you guys!

I wish a Merry Christmas for everyone and peaceful holiday time! 🎄

FIRI 2025

Even though this is still unofficial from the Research Council of Finland's site (will be announched I guess in January 2025), we were lucky and funded in the FIRI 2024 roadmap call for national research infrastructures for the years 2025–2028. So I was part of the consortuim called The European Infrastructure of Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology EU-OS Finland (EU-OS FI), which is a member of the European EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC (EU-OS) research infrastructure consortium. And the consortium is led by Professor Päivi Tammela from the University of Helsinki. So I'm really gratefull to Päivi for coordinating this all. But at the same time, I'm super-excited for all the possibilities this may bring to the whole medicinal chemistry divison at the School of Pharmacy (UEF). The aim is to invest to a new mass spectrometer and re-new some rotavaps.

Here is the UEF news (link) along with the other lucky ones, but like I menationed, it will be officially announced by the Research council of Finland a bit later... 😎