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Scientific research and education

Our vision is that we belong to the community of leading health care researchers in the Nordic countries. Our strategic partner is the University of Turku.

Varha Research Services and Turku Clinical Research Centre, TurkuCRC

Varha Research Services provides support and services for research at Varha. The Varha website provides guidance for both researchers and sponsors. The Turku Clinical Research Centre, Turku CRC is part of Varha Research Services. The TurkuCRC services are available to researchers from the University of Turku and Varha's collaborating region.

Auria Biobank

The duty of the Auria Biobank is to store labelled tissue and blood samples of human origin and to distribute them to health promoting medical studies. The founding members of the first biobank of Finland are the hospital districts of Southwest Finland, Satakunta and Vaasa and the University of Turku.

Funding of research

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. On the Research.fi website you can find e.g. open funding applications and the latest science and research news.

Tyks units of excellence

Tyks has nine units of excellence. The allocation of funding is based on the strategy of excellence, which aims to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and research position, and clinical excellence of our university hospital.