Topic: research

This autumn, doctoral researchers of the University of Tartu will again have the opportunity to participate in the three-minute thesis competition. The competition will be held on 21 October in the conference hall of the University of Tartu Library.

Jana Uhlinova showed in her doctoral thesis, that in chronic kidney disease, vascular calcification occurs most frequently in obese patients and with reduced kidney function.

The Human Genetics Research Group of the University of Tartu Faculty of Medicine has identified a gene whose defect may cause congenital heart malformations in the fetus.

Speaker application is open until April 1 for TEDxUniversity of Tartu.

Researchers from the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Tartu have developed an artificial intelligence-based machine learning model that enabled the relapse risk of endometrial cancer to be assessed before surgical intervention.

A doctoral thesis defended in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu fundamentally changes the current understanding of atherosclerosis treatment. The results show that at the cellular level, this chronic disease progresses differently in men and women, laying the groundwork for more precise and individualized therapies.

As possible ways forward, participants proposed strengthening digital and health literacy, providing institutional support for professionals, and raising awareness among both healthcare workers and patients.

A doctoral thesis defended in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu opens new possibilities for the earlier detection and more precise treatment of gynecological diseases, including cancer and endometriosis.

University of Tartu Professor of Nanomedicine Tambet Teesalu has become the first Estonian researcher to receive a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council, which supports collaboration of top-level research teams in tackling highly complex and ambitious scientific challenges.

The three-minute thesis competition for doctoral researchers, held at the University of Tartu Library on 22 October, featured 13 popular-science short lectures in Estonian and 14 in English.