Summer Holidays are approaching

It has been quiet in this blog already, mainly due to that last week's mid-summer holiday. Many of us also start our summer holidays from there. I have been working, like almost our whole group at least until the end of the next week. I have mentioned this earlier also, but this is the best time of the year to clean up your desk and brainstorm the upcoming semester. I will also have a new class starting next autumn, Organic Chemistry (well old course, but new in my teaching schedule). So I have to update the content and we also decided to translate it in English at this point, so we can easily adapt it with international students. So a lot of work!

We still have had Amandine, Lucie and Julie working hard in the labs, but soon their internships are also ending. Even though it was short time from early May, and I have been extremely busy during that time, it has been a great pleasure to work with you! So cheers and enjoy your well-earned summer! 😎 Let's get back to the business in August. There will be a lot happening as the semester starts...

17th Annual FinPharmaNet Meeting in Kuopio

As mentioned in the last post, this week our Doctoral Programme in Drug Research (DPDR) and the School of Pharmacy organized the 17th Annual FinPharmaNet Meeting in Scandic Kuopio on 12-13.6.2023. It was a great success, over 140 participants, great talks and wonderful interactions and discussion. We also had a nice boat or ferry cruise after the first day. And by the way, I was very proud of you all (Ph.D. students) who had a 3-minutes presentation, you did a great job! 😎

FIBTRA Meeting in August - Time to register!

As mentioned earlier during this year, we will organize another event, 6th Finnish Brain Tumor Research Association (FIBTRA) Annual Meeting in Kuopio Scandic, from 31st of August to 1st of September, 2023. It will be organized together with UEF Doctoral Programme in Drug Research (DPDR) with a focus on "Brain Tumor Microenvironment and Novel Drug Treatments to Treat Brain Tumors". We have invited several wonderful keynote speakers, from the USA, Sweden, Estonia, Germany and of course from Finland! Here is a sneakpeak to the symposium booklet and the program. More information can be found behind this link (https://sites.uef.fi/fibtra2023-symposium/). The early-bird registration is open until 31.6.2023, but the deadline for the abstracts is already next Friday (16.6.2023). I wish you welcome and hope seeing you in Kuopio in August!

Before that we will have a nice practise next week, when we are having a 17th Annual FinPharmaNet meeting in the same place, Scandic Kuopio, in 12-13.6.2023. Looking forward to the next week! 😎