Research areas

The main research emphases in the various faculties are as follows:

Faculty of Business and Information Technology
The core areas of research are

• information technology, including data and telecommunications technology and software technology
• essential areas of business administration, especially business operation of SMEs, entrepreneurship and regional development
• mathematics of control and systems technology, mathematics of biosciences and information technology

Faculty of Medicine
The core areas of research are

• genetic and molecular background, prevention and treatment of major chronic diseases
• neurosciences
• medical imaging
  

Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences
The core areas of research are

• biochemistry and bioinformatics
• biotechnology
• biochemistry
• environmental physics and computational physics, health care technology
• environmental health
• research on global change
• environmental informatics, environmental technology

Faculty of Pharmacy
The strategic research areas of the Faculty are

• Drug development
• Drug-like properties of drug substances (ADMET research)
• New drug formulations and process analysis techniques (PAT)
• Evaluation of efficacy of drug treatment

The research and further development of high-class analytical procedures is a research area, which supports the development of other research areas.

There are also research areas, which have high importance for the society. These are:

• Geriatric drug therapy
• Pediatric medication
• Impacts of political decision making concerning medicines
• Toxicological research on mechanisms involved in toxicity and toxicokinetics

Faculty of Social Sciences
The core areas of research are

• administrative and economic research of service systems in the social and health sector
• social capital, human security and life management
• issues related to the history of learning and to methodology
• health and well-being of children and families

A. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences
The core areas of research are

• biotechnology, especially animal biotechnology
• molecular medicine, especially gene therapy and gene transfer technology
• neurobiology, especially the neurobiology of diseases affecting the central nervous system and the development of disease models
• biological imaging in cells and laboratory animals