Orion Research Foundation grants €1,109,000 for research in 2025

Press release 22 November 2024 at 9.00am EET

Orion Research Foundation sr distributes €1,109,000 in research grants based on applications for 2025. Orion Research Foundation awards grants of up to €50,000 to 19 researchers for postdoctoral research and up to €6,000 to 93 young researchers for doctoral dissertation work.

Orion Research Foundation sr annually distributes return on investment and donations from Orion Corporation in the form of grants to young researchers for doctoral dissertation work and postdoctoral research. In recent years, the Research Foundation has distributed annual application-based grants totaling EUR 1 million for research in medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and related sciences such as chemistry and physics.

Grants for 2025

Postdoctoral Research Grants, €25,000 – €50,000

Aatsinki Anna-KatariinaLT, Turun yliopisto, Toiminnalliset vatsavaivat ja suolistomikrobiston kheyts lapususde, 25,000 EUR

Acosta Manzano Francisco MiguelResearcher, Turun yliopisto, Medicine (University of Turku) and Turku PET Center (Turku University Hospital), Unlocking the Power of Brown Fat: New Targets in the Fight Against Cardiometabolic Disease, EUR 50,000

Awad ShadyMD, Ph.D., University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, The role of identifying molecular vulnerabilities in TP53 mutant leukemic progression of myeloproliferative neoplasms, €25,000

Carpenter Timo Pertti MikaelLKT, dosentti, erikoislääkäri, palliativien säläipätevys, Helsingin yliopisto, Virtual symptom screening with targeted early palliative care (STEP2) versus usual care for patients with advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial., EUR 40,000

Göös Helka Linnea, FT, Suomen Punainen Risti, Veripalvelu, Improving the efficiency of CAR-NK cells using base editing, EUR 25,000

Häkli Martta Ida EmiliaTekniikan tohtori, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Hypertrophinen cardiomyopathy kantasolupohjaisissa sødorganoideissa, 30,000 EUR

Kim DaehongPostdoc Fellow, University of Zurich, University of Helsinki, Unraveling gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease: Organoid transplantation and advanced immune profiling in preclinical models, EUR 25,000

Korvenlaita Nea KaroliinaPharmasian tohtori, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology, Baltimore, USA, Aivosätäkien diagnostiikkaa uusin methodhosin: Solunulkoisista vesikkeleistä omäia biomarkkereita, 50,000 EUR

Kositsky AdamFT, Itä-Suomen yliopisto Kuopion campus, Piezo1 for Tendon: Understanding Biomechanical and Bioregenerative Effects (PiezTUBBE), 30,000 EUR

Koskinen Maija-KreettaFilosofian tohtori, Helsingin yliopisto, Sleep Well and Keep Calm: Neural Mechanisms of Sleep Disruption-Induced Anxiety, EUR 25,000

Laivuori Silja MirjamiLääketieteen tohtori, Helsingin yliopisto, Peripheral arterial disease in women., 25,000 EUR

Lautaoja-Kivipelto Juulia HeleneLiikuntatieteiden tohtori, Oulun yliopisto, Effects of exercise on adipose tissue mitochondrial function and NAD+ metabolism, EUR 30,000

Muroke ValtteriLT, Helsingin yliopisto, Helsingin Yliopistolinen Keskussairaala, Inflammation and coronary heart disease – Effects of colchicine on proteomic and metabolomic biomarkers in the COLCOT study, EUR 40,000

Mäkitaipale Heidi JohannaELT, pieneläinäläikärien erikoiseläinäläikäri, Helsingin yliopisto, Kaniinien suun mikrobiomi ja sen säytäs krooniseen hammassairauteen, EUR 30,000

Parvanian SepidehPhD, MBA, Åbo Akademi, Department of Cell Biology, Contrasting Immunogenic and Non-Immunogenic Bladder Tumors: Immune Microenvironment, Metabolic Influences and Therapeutic Resistance, EUR 25,000

Rajamaki BlairResearcher, Itä-Suomen yliopisto Kuopion kampus, Temporal changes in comorbidity clusters in people with type 2 diabetes in Finland and Australia, €25,000

Savukoski Susanna MarianneLääketieteen tohtori, Oulun yliopisto, Hormonikorvaushoidon long-term effects of long-term effects ennaikaisesti vaihdevuosiin tulleilla naisilla, 40,000 EUR

Urpa Lea MarttaResearcher, Helsingin yliopisto, Understanding the relationship between disturbed sleep and autism symptomatology, EUR 40,000

Yrjölä Pauliina Anna HenriikkaTekniikan tohtori, svetsilafyysikko, Helsingin yliopisto, Biomarkers of Adverse Structural-Functional Development in Premature Infants, EUR 30,000

The Orion Reaserch Foundation awards grants of up to €50,000 to 19 researchers for postdoctoral research. These grants total EUR 610,000.

PhD Thesis Grants, €3,000 – €6,000

In addition, the Orion Research Foundation awarded €3,000 – €6,000 to 93 researchers for doctoral dissertation work. These grants total EUR 499,000.

Orion Research Foundation sr

More information:

Siiri Lehtinen
Head of the Orion Research Foundation
Phone: +358 (0)10 426 4409
siiri.lehtinen(at)orion.fi

Editor
Orion Research Foundation sr

List of 2025 grant beneficiaries