We attended the 7th Annual Finnish Symposium on Brain Tumors in Turku! Was an inspiring and engaging event full of new ideas and collaborations. Many thanks to the organizers for a fantastic meeting! @fibtra.bsky.social #Fibtra2025

We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Michael Taylor from Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA. He gave inspiring talks on pediatric neuro-oncology.

Our PI Kirsi attended the 20th EANO meeting organized in Prague last week. She presented our work on hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment of diffuse astrocytomas and enjoyed sharing thoughts with Dr. David Zagzag about his work on hypoxia in chordomas @eanoassociation.bsky.social #EANO2025

At the 5th Health Data Science Event at Tampere University, our PhD student Maryam Mohammadlou presented her research on deep learning-based cancer immunoscoring from histopathological images

Valuable discussions at the China-Germany-Finland Life Sciences Forum 2025 at Tampere University. Our PI Kirsi Rautajoki shared our latest findings on how hypoxia shapes the brain tumor immune environment, representing the Cancer Regulation and Immunology group.

We’re happy to congratulate Navoda Epitagama Liyana Arachchige for completing her excellent MSc thesis studying FGFR3-TACC3 fusion+ cell migration with a 3D GBM model. The thesis was a joint effort with S. Narkilahti’s Neurogroup, supervised by S. Mäntylä, N. Förster & K. Rautajoki.

We are proud to congratulate Miina Vulli on her thesis and graduation! 👏😊 Miina explored ways to enhance the biological signal in scRNA-seq data in glioblastoma. Her work provided highly valuable insights for both ongoing and future research. Thesis supervised by Kirsi Rautajoki and Juha Kesseli.

Warm congratulations to MSc Ismaïl Hermelo on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled “From Neoplastic Cells to Non-Canonical Immune Subsets in Human Brain Tumors.”

📌The power of research associations and collaboration: the case of FiBTRA 🗓️8.6. 19:00 CEST 🔗https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_btJ9T_RaRZCUad_Rbu1dcg ➡https://network.febs.org/posts/febs-junior-section-present-kirsi-rautajoki #FEBS_JS #YoungFEBS #onlinetalk #talkseries #Biobio

What a wonderful week it has been, celebrating the domination of our close collaborator and friend professor Wei Zhang as a honorary doctorate as well as other conferments of doctoral degree for Tampere University. Congratulations! 👏 😊 🎉

We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Wei Zhang ahead of his honorary doctorate ceremony at Tampere University. Great presentations and inspiring scientific discussions were held. Congratulations and welcome! Honored to celebrate recognition of decades of science!

We are extremely grateful for the support we have received from the Mary and Georg C. Ehrnrooth Foundation for our research of the colorectal cancer tumor microenvironment! 🙂🙏❤️

Exciting Tampere University BIO&MEDI Units' Spring Research Day held today with interesting science and discussions, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange! Our work also presented by Pl Kirsi Rautajoki.

Our newest paper by Joonas Uusi-Mäkelä et al. about the lncRNAs and their relations on growth and prognosis in diffuse gliomas is out now in Scientific Reports. Study was done in collaboration with NykterLab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So happy and proud of our PhD student Laura Huhtala for receiving funding from the Pirkanmaa Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation for AT/RT research. Congratulations Laura! 👏 🙂 ❤️ The 63rd annual celebration and grant award ceremony was wonderful, featuring excellent talks and arts. ✨

Many of our group's PhD students have been successfully in obtaining external funding. It is so nice that their hard work and excellence is credited. ❤️ This time we are proud of Anja Hartewig and @AliisaTiihonen for their doctoral school funding. Congratulations! 👏☺️

The first fruit of our nice collaboration with Susanna Narkilahti's Neurogroup came out in The FASEB journal today, describing a 3D neuron-glioma model and its intercellular interactions. Great work Nanna, Lotta, and others! 👏🙂 dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.2...

Extremely honored to receive funding from @SigridJuselius foundation for our glioblastoma research. ❤️ This influential foundation was established in memory of beloved Sigrid Jusélius (passed away as a child),highlighting the primary purpose of our work: reducing patient suffering.

Organized and Energized! We had our LeGO (Let’s Get Organized) meeting and laid out clear plans to make 2025 a productive and successful year.

Our single-cell analysis paper about noncanonical immune cells in brain tumors by Ismail Hermelo et al. now out at Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy 👏🙂 tinyurl.com/3bs7eswp. In collaboration with clinical researchers from @Tays_sairaala and @NykterLab from @TampereUniMET

In an interview with Väre Foundation, our PI Kirsi Rautajoki shared her career and her passion for advancing pediatric and adult brain tumor research. An inspiring read for anyone curious about scientific career paths and today's science #CancerResearch .https://t.co/ZxidTZbTZe