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Research Center Science Mimicking Life (RC-SML)

Tampereen yliopiston kudosteknologian tutkimuskeskus

Research focus

We have set our research goals under 4 broad research topics.

1) The clinical goal of our RC is to develop novel technologies for personalized medicine in, for example, the development of new stem cell-based therapies, tissue engineered human spare parts, and medical implants. 2) The goal of organ-on-chip modelling is to develop next generation in vitro models that mimic human organ systems by combining technologies and stem cell-derived human cells. 3) The biological goal relates to better understanding of stem cell fate and functionality from genetic, biochemical, and biophysical perspectives, and understanding cell-biomaterial interactions in combination of other environmental cues. 4) The engineering goal is to develop materials, methods, devices, techniques, and computational models with which to tackle chosen biological and clinical questions.

To ensure efficient and fluent work in our substantially large RC, we have organized our work under 3 thematic areas, namely, In vitro and in vivo tissue engineering, Biomedical microsystems and biomeasurements, and Clinical translation and leaders of these thematic areas together with RC leaders form the RC board.

Some RC-SML researchers and undergraduate students in Arvo building (photo Jonne Renvall)
Some RC-SML researchers and undergraduate students in Arvo building (photo Jonne Renvall)

The high-quality research and education are naturally interlinked in the academic world. At this moment we are training over 80 PhD students, and have supervised over 100 PhD thesis during past 10 years. Most of our PhD students belong to doctoral school of our faculty (https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/doctoral-programme-medicine-biosciences-and-biomedical-engineering).

We supervise annually about 40 MSc and BSc thesis and most of these students belong to our own degree programmes. We also supervise theses works for other universities both nationally and internationally. All our PI’s and several researchers are responsible of running courses as well as Majors and Minors in the faculty Degree Programmes.

Please find the link to our Degree Programmes in (https://www.tuni.fi/en/about-us/faculty-medicine-and-health-technology#switcher-trigger–studies)