Last night FIN3R hosted a dinner next to Kallavesi 🌅 for the speakers of our course. Everyone working hard to improve our way of researching human health and disease while reducing and replacing the use of animals!

Nanomuovit voivat tuoreen tutkimuksen mukaan kulkea aivoja suojaavan veri-aivoesteen läpi. Tutkimus lisää merkittävästi ymmärrystä, miten nanomuovit voivat kulkeutua verenkierrossa ja vuorovaikuttaa elimistössä. Šárka Lehtonen UEF Neuroscience UEF Water uef.fi/fi/artikkeli/u…

Pioneering study reveals nanoplastics may cross blood-brain barrier.The research marks a significant advancement in understanding how nanoplastics might transfer in human blood and interact with biological systems.Šárka Lehtonen UEF Neuroscience UEF Water uef.fi/en/article/pio…

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Aivoterveys | Muovihiukkasia voi päätyä myös aivoihin, paljastaa uusi tutkimus hs.fi/tiede/art-2000…

Last week a new Postdoc started in our lab! Dr. Sinem Güden Yıldırım will explore nanoparticle-induced inflammasome activation in Parkinson’s. Thanks to YUFE - Young Universities for the Future of Europe for funding this work! We’re excited to welcome Sinem to Kuopio ☺️

Celebrating many great milestones of our hard work this week! 🥂 1 published paper (Sanni Peltonen & Jonna Niskanen), 1 accepted paper (Jonna Niskanen), & 1 submitted manuscript (Tuuli Sonninen)! Let's go 🥳💪

Collaborative paper in nanotoday: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ; preprint Niskanen et al. (accepted to GLIA): researchsquare.com/article/rs-402…

Congratulations, Jonna Niskanen , on publishing your first paper as a key part of your PhD UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine!🎉 Your work on how human microglia respond to aSYN fibrils and inflammation significantly contributes to the field.A.I. Virtanen Institute UEF Neuroscience

Congratulations, Jonna Niskanen! Thank you, University of Eastern Finland, UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine, and A.I. Virtanen Institute, for all the support! Also, thank you, Human Brain Disease Modelling, @LabMalm, Koistinaho Lab, and Kelvin C Luk for your contribution.

It may be dark outside but inside Lehtonen lab is BRIGHT 💡 Valtteri Syvänen received 3-year funding for doctoral research UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine congrats! 🥂🥳 Thank you for funding this interesting project and motivated researcher 🤩💪🏻 A.I. Virtanen Institute

Warm congratulations to Sanni! The second paper of her PhD studies is now out, shedding light on pericytes’ role in #Parkinsons disease and providing new insights into inflammation and vascular changes. A.I. Virtanen Institute UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine UEF Neuroscience

Congratulations to our doctoral researcher Tuuli Sonninen on receiving a grant for using a human cell-based model of the blood-brain barrier to study vascular dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. #Parkinsons #bloodbrainbarrier

"What an amazing way to end the year! 🎉 I'm so glad everyone had the chance to bond, have fun, and celebrate all the hard work and achievements this year. Whether you escaped or not, teamwork is what matters most. Here`s to many more successes and good times in 2025! 🥂

New issue in Am J Psych Amer Psychiatric Pub focusing on schizophrenia. We report a decrease in synapse loss in schizophrenia-derived organoids by inhibiting KAT enzymes Kynexis psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…