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The Sakari Alhopuro Foundation promotes and supports medical research, biodiversity, entrepreneurship as well as cultural and social well-being in Finland.
Medical Science
The Foundation specifically supports young doctors, so that they might have the opportunity to conduct research already during their studies and immediately after graduating.
Nature
More research data is needed about the impacts of climate change on our planet’s future. The Foundation seeks to advance an understanding of the biodiversity of nature as a means of promoting a more sustainable use of our natural surroundings.
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The Sakari Alhopuro Foundation awarded nearly 900,000 euro for research
The Sakari Alhopuro Foundation has awarded, in total, nearly EUR 900,000 to research in the fields of medical science and the natural sciences. This year, grant funding is awarded to a total of 18 researchers. Some of them receive continued funding for research projects initiated earlier with support from the Foundation.
Sakari Alhopuro:
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS FOUND IN HELPING OTHERS
‘What is the purpose of life? As a doctor, I have often considered that the purpose of life is found in helping others’, states Sakari Alhopuro, founder of the Foundation.
Blogs
Get to know the work of researchers by reading our blogs!
Would better sleep enhance the recovery of intensive care patients?
The majority of patients in intensive care suffer from insufficient and interrupted sleep, which has a negative impact on their well-being. The knowledge is largely based on patients’ subjective experiences. The current research aims at providing scientific information about the matter utilizing methods based on, for example, machine learning.The amazing world of lymph nodes – what can we still discover?
Hi there! Join me and dive deep into the incredible lymph node, come explore the immune system and be amazed by its capacity to take care of us.Articles
Professor Pentti Huovinen received the A. I. Virtanen Prize
Named after the only Finnish Nobel laureate in science, the A .I. Virtanen Prize has been awarded to Professor Pentti Huovinen in recognition of his internationally significant research in the field of bacteriology.Professor Emeritus Pekka Niemelä: “Root causes for the loss of nature derive from the Age of Enlightenment"
According to Pekka Niemelä, Professor (emer.) of Biodiversity and Environmental Science at the University of Turku, the accelerating loss of nature cannot be explained by climate change and related factors alone. He suggests that the root causes for the current state of nature derive from the Age of Enlightenment when humankind attempted to establish dominion over nature – with fateful consequences.Contact information
Sakari Alhopuro Foundation
Board of Directors of the Foundation
Lääkintöneuvos (Finnish hononary title)
Professor of Bacteriology
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Research
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