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Neuro-Innovation is an EU Horizon2020 MSCA funded four-year doctoral programme that focuses on research and innovation for brain health throughout life. The project coordinators are professor Päivi Eriksson (UEF Business School) and professor Tarja Malm (A I Virtanen Institute).
Leaders
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Päivi Eriksson
ProfessorBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Tarja Malm
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
The Neuro-Innovation doctoral programme is a new, globally unique effort to train international experts who are wanted in the European job market and future research leaders in brain health innovation. These experts will learn to solve innovationrelated questions in personalized medicine that focuses on the prediction, prevention and early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases and epilepsy. They will have skills to develop novel treatments and commercialize their research results in the form of new technologies, models, and methods in the European and global markets. Health care is globally faced with a growing burden of major age-associated diseases. Neuro-innovation and impact as well as neuro-ethics are needed to survive these challenges and maintain brain health throughout life. This will be gained by offering world class research-oriented PhD training that combines neurosciences with innovation management, social sciences and law, and computer science and applied physics. In depth substance knowledge and methodology training will be topped up with wellplanned transferable skills curricula providing the graduates with skills needed in changing career paths after their initial researcher training. Other means to achieve training goals include well-planned mobility periods to international research environments of partner universities, meaningful secondments with companies, and frequent exposure to intersectoral activities in training. The Neuro-Innovation doctoral programme will take the researcher training to the next level in terms of research excellence developed within two regional health innovation ecosystems that benefits both parties. The NeuroInnovation programme will create critical mass for a new talent hub for university-industry collaboration. Several measures will be taken to attract female and minority candidates, and applicants from new EU countries and those that do not have strong PhD training in the research filed of this programme.
News
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6.4.2021: Neuro-Innovation PhD programme awarded 1.5 million euro grant from the EU
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22.11.2022: New doctoral programme boosts research into brain health innovations
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10.6.2024 Researchers of the programme inspire children to explore brain health at a science camp
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Leaders
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Päivi Eriksson
ProfessorBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Tarja Malm
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Doctoral Researchers
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Andrius Penkauskas
Doctoral ResearcherSchool of Computing, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology -
Meheli Banerjee
Doctoral ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Kaustubh Jadhav
Doctoral ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Catherine Suubi Kayonga
Doctoral ResearcherDepartment of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Melika Azim Zadegan
Doctoral ResearcherBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Ahmed Mohamed
Early Stage ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Alex Berg
Doctoral ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Elena Ppali
Early Stage ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Melina Estela Dalmau
Doctoral ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Hannaneh Moradi
Doctoral ResearcherBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Shekhar Singh
Doctoral ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Aidan Mason-Mackay
Doctoral ResearcherDepartment of Technical Physics, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology -
Faezeh Heidari
Doctoral ResearcherInstitute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Kanishka Kanishka
Doctoral ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Supervisors of Doctoral Researchers
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Noora Puhakka
Project ResearcherA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Heikki Tanila
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Tero Montonen
Associate ProfessorBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Ville Kolehmainen
ProfessorDepartment of Technical Physics, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology -
Mikko Hiltunen
ProfessorInstitute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Päivi Eriksson
ProfessorBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Asla Pitkänen
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Olli Gröhn
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Miia Kivipelto
ProfessorInstitute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Reetta Kälviäinen
ProfessorInstitute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Ville Leinonen
ProfessorSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Alina Solomon
ProfessorInstitute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Katja Kanninen
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Elisa Tiilikainen
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Tarja Malm
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Riikka Martikainen
Research DirectorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Annakaisa Haapasalo
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Alejandra Sierra Lopez
Research Director -
Jussi Tohka
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Pauli Miettinen
ProfessorSchool of Computing, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology -
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen
ProfessorLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
Programme coordinator
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Päivi Eriksson
ProfessorBusiness School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Tarja Malm
ProfessorA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences