DrugTech Research Community

Roughly a year ago, we were kind of forced to think our strategic plans for the future at the UEF, as we were asked to form multidisciplinary research communities (RC), which were then evaluated for their activities for the period of 2015-2018. At the beginning there was a lot of hassle; can one researcher belong to several communities, etc. But that wasn't allowed, at least for the evaluation period, which was kind of weird as most of us and our work does not sit into only one category. I and my group ended up to belong to a community called first as "Platform for Drug Discovery and Delivery Technologies (PDDT)" that was established by Prof. Arto Urtti from the School of Pharmacy. Later on, we re-named us as "DrugTech" and from the evaluation we got a really good feedback (numerically 6/6)! In the community there is ca. 20 principal investigators (PIs) and it total we are approximately 100 researchers from pharmaceutical, medicinal and natural sciences. This week we had the first kick-off meeting, in which the PIs presented the current activities and the future prospects and we discussed new ideas and collaborative projects. I really look forward to our next evaluation period, as we already have a really good interactions going on. :)