Prostate Cancer Research Centre founded at the University of Tampere

The University of Tampere has founded the Prostate Cancer Research Centre. Professor Fritz Schröder, who is a long-term research partner from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, spoke in the opening ceremony.

The Prostate Research Centre brings together 60 researchers who all do research on prostate cancer and work in one of the three Schools on the University’s Kauppi campus. The researchers belong to research groups led by seven professors.

The Centre will conduct research on different aspects of prostate cancer: epidemiology, clinical trials and drug development, molecular biology, genetics and systems biology. For example, the aim is to investigate the mechanisms that trigger aggressive types of prostate cancer and how they can be treated. The research groups will work in close cooperation and they belong to international research consortiums. The centre has also succeeded in recruiting two Finland Distinguished Professors.

Systematic research on prostate cancer has been conducted at the University of Tampere and the Tampere University Hospital for over two decades. In that time, the researchers have published hundreds of peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and about thirty PhDs have defended their dissertations. The internationally highly esteemed research programme is now organised in a research centre.

The research groups that have received funding throughout the years have been funded by all the main foundations in Finland, several international foundations and the Pirkanmaa Hospital District, the Academy of Finland, Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, and the European Union.

For further information please contact
Professor Tapio Visakorpi
tel. +358 40 717 4402
e-mail tapio.visakorpi@uta.fi