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The non-profit foundation supports, promotes and maintains research in clinical medicine and other university-level health sciences in Turku University Hospital and its area of influence. The foundation was founded by the decision of the Council of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland on 14th October 1999.
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Jaakko Koskenniemi: Major Grant from the Marita and Heikki Vaiste Fund (€100,000) for research on the origins of type 1 Diabetes
Curiosity led Jaakko Koskenniemi to begin doctoral research already during medical school. – During my first summer working in medicine, I became familiar with a remarkable difference in reproductive health between children studied in Turku and Copenhagen. The researchers had an interesting hypothesis regarding the effects of environmental chemicals. I ended up writing my doctoral
