Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory - Åbo Akademi

16/10/2026

Today we have the pleasure of following the PhD defence of Mahsa Bahman, who has carried out an industrial PhD at spinoff company CurifyLabs 🖨️ 💊 ⚕️ Tappi as first-time custos in the legendary tux of the founder of Leiras (today Bayer in Turku) and our returning guest Prof. Ingunn Tho from Oslo as opponent 🎩 The respondent diligently made sure to remember to thank the opponent in her closing words by writing this in her notes using a lip pencil since she didn't have a pen 💄 😃 📝

13/10/2026

👨‍🎓 Public defence of doctoral thesis in drug development – MSc Mahsa Bahman will publicly defend her doctoral thesis at the Department of Natural and Health Sciences at Åbo Akademi University on Friday, October 16, 2026 at 1 p.m. (Finnish time) in Auditorium Argentum, Aurum building.

📖 The thesis is entitled " Scalable Personalized Oral Medicines Through Semi-Solid Extrusion-Based Compounding Platform: Formulation Development, Quality Control, and Hospital Implementation".

👩‍🏫 Professor Ingunn Tho, University of Oslo, will serve as opponent and custos is professor Tapani Viitala, Åbo Akademi University.

💻 The electronic version of the doctoral dissertation is available in database Doria: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/195561

📰 Also read the press release about Bahman’s research ”Technology inspired by 3D printing could transform how medicines are tailored to patients” (link in the comments section!)

🔗 The public defence can also be attended online, please see comments section for Zoom link ⬇️

03/10/2026

Vishal Kumar's dissertation has been defended, the karonka has been held, and with that we got to take part of this awesome celebratory video by main supervisor Dr. Kuldeep Bansal 🎉 📹🥳 🥂🎊 🍾 Enjoy!

Celebratory video for Vishal Kumar's PhD defence party (aka karonka...

30/09/2026

👨‍🎓 Public defence of doctoral thesis in Pharmacy – Master of Pharmacy Vishal Kumar will publicly defend his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Åbo Akademi University on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 1 p.m. (Finnish time) in Auditorium Argentum, Aurum building.

📖 The thesis is entitled "Synthesis and evaluation of amphiphilic block co-polymers derived from renewable feedstocks for oral delivery of therapeutics".

👩‍🏫 Assistant professor Francesca Mastrotto, University of Padova, Italy, will serve as opponent, Professor Jessica Rosenholm, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.

💻 The electronic version of the doctoral dissertation is available in database Doria (link in comments section!)

🔗 The public defence can also be attended online, please see comments section for Zoom link ⬇️

25/09/2026

Happy World Pharmacists Day 2026 💊 ⚕️ ⚗️ 💉 🏥 🧑‍🔬 https://www.fip.org/world-pharmacists-day

10/09/2026

You are very welcome to join the Biocenter Finland Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology (DDCB) symposium 2026 💊💊💊 on the 8th of October right here in Turku & also welcome to present your poster 👨‍🏫

The DDCB Platform coordinates infrastructure and expertise in the areas of drug discovery and chemical biology and makes it available to the scientific community. The DDCB Symposium 2026 presents a unique opportunity to meet DDCB staff from all Biocenters and discuss your research needs in a single afternoon. The event also features presentations from facility users and the Finnish Drug Discovery Centre (FDDC). More info below ⬇️

You are very welcome to join the Biocenter Finland Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology symposium 2026 on the 8th of October 2026! You are also welcome to present your poster! The Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology Platform coordinates infrastructure and expertise in the areas of drug discovery and....

03/09/2026

Yesterday we had the privilege to catch up with how Niklas Sandler's spinoff company CurifyLabs is doing nowadays at the HealthBIO event, based on a decade of academic research here at PSL 🖨️ 💊 ⚕️ (see some of the slides below!)

Today we are sailing a sunny Baltic sea on the 4th Microbe Cruise "Microbes, Infections and Omics" excited to see a former MSc graduate on the speakers list 🧑‍🏫 🦠 🏥 Clearly the new academic year is in full swing now!

02/09/2026

The 20th HealthBIO event kicking off with a full house here in Presidentti auditorium in Biocity, celebrating two decades of impact as the most important life science event in Finland 💊 🏥 🧬 https://businessturku.fi/en/event/healthbio-2026/

21/08/2026

*Phew* what a successful FinPharmaNet annual meeting once again ⚕️ 💊 🧬 A full bus from Turku with ÅAU and UTU participants 🚌 and >150 participants overall in sunny Kuopio this time 🧑‍🏫 Fantastic PSL representation in the talk lineup (and also the karaoke of course 🎤).

We're even leaving with a couple of prizes, Jonne for best talk in his session and Chengcheng for elevator pitch 🏆 Next year in Turku 19-20.8.2027 then, planning is already ongoing 📝 Welcome all ‼️

30/06/2026

WOW what a PhD defense & karonka party once again 👌🎉👏 All the elements in place - fantastic food 🍲 🍜 🍚 voluntary and less voluntary karaoke 🎤 beautiful and funny speeches with thoughtful gifts 🎁 and as a bonus, Chinese letkajenkka 💃🎶🕺 (see comment section for video!) HUGE congratulations Dr. Chengcheng Li and may your future be as bright as your thesis 🌹 🥂