News
On its 25th anniversary in 2025, the TYKS Foundation will allocate 250,000 euros to medical and health science research.
SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE – TYKS FOUNDATION 25 YEARS The TYKS Foundation was established in autumn of 1999 and 2025 will be its 25th full year of operation. The foundation will celebrate its anniversary by fulfilling its basic mission – by distributing grants to medical and health science researchers in the Turku region…
TYKS Foundation grants in medicine and health sciences and Anne and Rauno Puolimatka Foundation grants for 2025
Applications open from 1.1.-31.1.2025 by 15:00
TYKS Foundation travel grants
TYKS Foundation has awarded the 2024 travel grants for researchers in medicine and health sciences. The €42,000 now awarded is part of the largest grant award in the foundation’s history, totalling €300,000. The significantly higher award has been made possible by the significant donations received by the foundation. TYKS Foundation is an independent foundation not…
First Jarmo Karppi Award to Docent Päivi Lähteenmäki
The Jarmo Karppi Distinguished Cancer Researcher Award has been presented to Päivi Lähteenmäki, a specialist in paediatrics and paediatric haematology. She has made a particular contribution to the research and development of psychosocial support for people with childhood cancer. Lähteenmäki has developed monitoring and treatment of the late effects on young cancer survivors and is…
Urological know-how from NYU Langone Hospital in New York
Doctor of Medicine and LL. M. Juha Knaapila familiarised himself with urology treatment practices and research, in one of the world’s top centres of excellence, with the help of the TYKS Foundation’s travel grant. The visit gave new perspectives, for example, for local treatments of prostate cancer. In addition to clinical findings, researcher contacts were…
Distribution of TYKS Foundation research grants to a new level in 2024
In 2024, the TYKS Foundation will allocate significantly more money to medical and health sciences research than before. This is enabled by significant donations received by the Foundation. In 2024, the Board of the TYKS Foundation will grant a record amount of EUR 300,000 for research (EUR 143,800 in 2023). At this stage, the Board…
More than one million donated to the TYKS Foundation.
The TYKS Foundation has received a bequest of 1.6 million euros. The record-breaking donation is stated in the will of Jarmo Karppi (1953-2022) from Kaarina.
TYKS Foundation Awarded Record Number of Scholarships for 2023
The Board of the TYKS Foundation awarded a total of EUR 143,880 in scholarships for 2023 (126,800 in 2022). Medical scholarships were awarded to 27 researchers (EUR 97,500 in total), nursing science and health research scholarships to eight researchers (EUR 22,180 in total), and travel scholarships to 13 researchers (EUR 24,200 in total). “We are…
From the executive director
Minna Lukkarinen – paediatrician-scientist who cares for patients and their families TYKS Foundation appointed a new executive director on 1 September 2021. The work of Professor Olli Ruuskanen, who has led the Foundation from the beginning, will be continued by Medical Specialist Minna Lukkarinen.
Petri Virolainen and Minna Lukkarinen Appointed to Head TYKS Foundation
The TYKS Foundation will be headed by Petri Virolainen, Docent, Hospital Director, Acting Director of Hospital District, and Minna Lukkarinen, D.Med.Sc., Specialist in Paediatrics, who were appointed as the new Chair of the Board and Executive Director, respectively. The “new brooms” will sweep tidy floors, i.e. run the Foundation’s already impeccable operations. A record number…
