Finnish Brain Foundation grants nine researchers from the University of Oulu
The following researchers from the University of Oulu were awarded grants:
Laura Leppänen: Risk factors and comorbidities of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease – €12,000
Veera Tikkanen: Executive function problems related to early-onset memory disorders – €12,000
Johanna Tuunanen: Enhancing the brain’s glymphatic system: Multimodal brain imaging and therapeutic study – €15,000
Tiina Pesonen: Sensory deficits among home care clients and their connection to safe home living, as well as physical, psychological, social, and cognitive functional capacity and received care time – €15,000
Marita Haukilehto: “If necessary, with a new referral”: The impact of childhood language development disorder on the quality of life and functioning of mildly intellectually disabled individuals diagnosed in adulthood – €10,000
Meri Lassila: Childhood and adolescence risk factors for prodromal symptoms of psychosis and psychosis in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 – €4,000
Heli Leppänen: Prematurity, childhood ADHD, and the social prognosis in adulthood – €2,500
Aanja Adoor: Early risk factors of eating disorders in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 – €4,000
Sonja Karikka: The human microbiome and its mechanisms of influence in Parkinson’s disease – €5,000
The 2024 application round received submissions from 147 researchers, of whom one-third were awarded funding. Individual grants ranged between €2,000 and €15,000, with most allocated to doctoral research projects. The grants are funded by donations collected from bequests, special occasion and memorial fundraisers, monthly donors, and corporate partners.