The epigenetic clocks used in the study are being studied by the Minerva Institute's epigenomics research group. Pictured (left/right) are [...]

Professor Jason K. Kim, Ph.D. Director, Metabolic Disease Research Center University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USATitle: Role of Inflammation in Obesity [...]

The Minerva Foundation Symposium 2025 gathered leading experts in medical research to discuss the latest advancements in research to understand [...]

Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research opened in October 2025 a call for collaborative proposals between the institute’s research groups, [...]

Sami Qadri, MD, investigated the effects of ketogenic and conventional weight-loss diets on patients with fatty liver disease in his [...]

The leader of the Minerva research group focusing on membrane biology, Professor Elina Ikonen, has been awarded the Ella & [...]

Welcome to attend the inaugural lecture for Heikki Koistinen’s new Professorship in Internal Medicine in the University of Helsinki Small [...]

Doctoral Defence on Friday 12.12.2025 at 12 Sami Qadri: Regulation of Human Liver Metabolism in MASLD Address: Auditorio 116, Unioninkatu [...]

Dr. Merja Joensuu PhD, MSc, BSc, MLT Senior Research Fellow | Group Leader Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The [...]

Doctoral Defence on Friday 21.11.2025 at 13:00 Lauri Vanharanta: Mechanisms of cellular cholesterol storage Address: Naistenklinikka, Seth Wichmann hall, Haartmaninkatu [...]

Hannes Frederik Bode, M.Sc. will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Epigenetics of Environmental Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Cancer-Discordant [...]

Doctoral Defence on Tuesday 1.7.2025 at 12:00 Abel Szkalisity: Computational techniques in lipid metabolic studies Metsätalo, B116 (sali 1), Unioninkatu [...]

Vaishali Chaurasiya, who is preparing her PhD thesis at Minerva Institute’s Lipid Signaling and Homeostasis group, was awarded Young Investigator [...]

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Microscopic image of differentiating human adipocytes grown in a cell culture. Mitochondria connected to each other are shown in [...]

Professor Meredith Hawkins Albert Eistein College of Medicine New York, USA "Type 5 diabetes - a new global challenge" Can [...]

The 2025 J.W. Runeberg Prize has been awarded to Professor Dan Lindholm for his groundbreaking contributions to neuroscience and neurodegenerative [...]

Professor Hannele Yki-Järvinen, an internationally respected physician-scientist, has been awarded the prestigious Matti Äyräpää Award for her groundbreaking work on [...]

Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research congratulates Dr. David Micinski on his remarkable achievement! His dissertation received the rare "Pass [...]

Minerva Scientific Report 2024

Doctoral Defence on Fri 21.3.2025 at 13:00 David Micinski: The Actin Cytoskeleton and Axon Initial Segment Function Biomedicum 1, lecture [...]