PhD Thesis of the Year Award 2024
The Turku Cancer Research Society invites all students recently defended a PhD thesis on the field of cancer to apply for the PhD thesis of the Year Award 2024! The purpose of the award is to highlight talented early career researchers and their research conducted in Turku. The award (500 €, funded by Jalkanen Foundation) will be presented in the Society´s Christmas Seminar event on Decembre 3, 2024 at Alhopuro lecture hall (Medisiina C).
The recipient of the award will be invited to give a short talk in the seminar. To apply, please follow the instructions below. The application deadline is November 1, 2024 and the applicant need to be a member of the TCRS.
Pilvi Riihilä, Chair of the TCRS, and Pertti Nurminen, Winner of the best Thesis of the Year 2024 Award. Award sponsored by Jalkanen Foundation
Chair of the TCRS. Pilvi Riihilä. Program of the seminar
Leo Lahti, professor, University of Turku, “Microbiomes & cancer”
Pertti Nurminen, PhD. University of Turku. Winner of the best Thesis of the Year 2024 Award. Thesis presentation.
Peeter Karihtala Research diretor, professor, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center and University of Helsinki, “Cancer and microbiome – an oncological perspective.
PhD Thesis of the Year Award 2023
The Turku Cancer Research Society invites all students having defended a PhD thesis on the field of cancer to apply for the PhD thesis of the Year Award 2023!
The purpose of the award is to highlight talented early career researchers and their research conducted in Turku. The award (500 €, funded by Jalkanen Foundation) will be presented in the society´s Christmas seminar event on 12th of December 2023. The recipient of the award will be invited to give a short talk in the seminar.
To apply, please follow the following instructions (the application deadline is November 12, 2023)
The winner will be contacted by the 29-30th of November. To find more information about the application, requirements and selection, please check our society web page http://cancerresearch.utu.fi/?page_id=487.
You may also contact TCRS chair, Pilvi Riihilä (pimati@utu.fi), or secretary, Gabriela Martínez (mgmcha@utu.fi) for any questions.
Winner of the PhD thesis of the year award 2022 (Christmas Seminar 2022)
PhD Thesis of the Year 2022
Turku Cancer Research Society invites any student having defended a PhD thesis related with cancer to apply for the PhD thesis of the Year Award 2022! The purpose of the award is to highlight talented early career researchers and the impact of cancer research conducted in Turku. The award (500 €, funded by Sirpa and Markku Jalkanen Foundation) will be presented in the society´s Christmas seminar event on 13th of December 2022. The recipient of the award will be invited to give a short talk in the seminar. Apply for the award by submitting an email application (check instructions below) to the secretary of the Society (contact-tcrs@lists.utu.fi or gmartine@abo.fi) no later than the 11th of November 2022. The winner will be contacted by the 23-25th of November. You may also contact Turku Cancer Research Society chair Maria Sundvall (mahesu(at)utu.fi) or secretary Gabriela Martínez (gmartine(at)abo.fi) for any questions. Please feel free to forward this message to anybody who might be eligible to apply!
Young Principal Investigator Award 2021
Turku Cancer Research Society is pleased to announce that nominations for the Young Principal Investigator Award are now open. The Award (2500 €) is sponsored by the Jalkanen Foundation and is planned to recognize the best scientific work by a young early career principal investigator. We encourage nominations of young investigators who are making significant contributions to the understanding of cancer or are improving the treatment of the disease through basic or clinical research at the Turku Campus. The selection will be based on the scientific quality and novelty of his/her publications from 2019-2021 as last or second last author.
Nominate a colleague using the online form behind this link by 9.11.2021: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/165B86B3580325D7
The award will be presented in the Society’s Christmas seminar event on 30th of November 2021.
Winners 2021:
Guillaume Jacquemet Academy Research Fellow
Hongbo Zhang Academy Research Fellow, Åbo Akademi University
PhD Thesis of the Year – Award 2021
Turku Cancer Research Society invites applications for the annual PhD Thesis of the Year Award. The purpose of the award (500€) is to highlight talented early career researchers and the impact of cancer research conducted in Turku. Application are open for those who have received a PhD or an MD-PhD degree from the University of Turku or Åbo Akademi University between 1.7.2020 and 30.6.2021
Apply for the award by submitting an email application to the secretary of the Society (contact-tcrs@lists.utu.fi) no later than the 28th of October 2021.
The winner 2021 will be contacted by 12-13th of November. The award will be presented in the Society’s Christmas seminar event on 30thof November 2021.
Hall of Fame
Winner 2021
PhD Eleonora Mäkelä “Novel PP2A biomarkers in cancer”
Winner 2020
PhD Minna Piippo “Long non-coding RNAs in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma”
Winner 2019
PhD Teemu Daniel Laajala “Modeling and prediction of advanced prostate cancer”
Winner 2018
PhD Sofia Aakko “MicroRNA-mediated regulation of mitosis and taxane sensitivity in breast and ovarian cancer”
Winner 2017
MD, PhD Andreina Kero “Late mortality and cardiovascular morbidity after cancer at a young age in Finland”
Winner 2016
PhD Julia Misiorek “The role of keratin intermediate filaments in the colon epithelial cells”
Winner 2015
PhD Jenni Mäki-Jouppila “To divide or not to divide; MicroRNAs and small compounds as modulators of mitosis”
