Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory - Åbo Akademi

*Phew* what a successful FinPharmaNet annual meeting once again ⚕️ 💊 🧬 A full bus from Turku with ÅAU and UTU participants 🚌 and >150 participants overall in sunny Kuopio this time 🧑‍🏫 Fantastic PSL representation in the talk lineup (and also the karaoke of course 🎤).

We're even leaving with a couple of prizes, Jonne for best talk in his session and Chengcheng for elevator pitch 🏆 Next year in Turku 19-20.8.2027 then, planning is already ongoing 📝 Welcome all ‼️

WOW what a PhD defense & karonka party once again 👌🎉👏 All the elements in place - fantastic food 🍲 🍜 🍚 voluntary and less voluntary karaoke 🎤 beautiful and funny speeches with thoughtful gifts 🎁 and as a bonus, Chinese letkajenkka 💃🎶🕺 (see comment section for video!) HUGE congratulations Dr. Chengcheng Li and may your future be as bright as your thesis 🌹 🥂

Last PhD defense before summer break, but we'll be back for more after summer 🌞 Today it's Chengcheng Li's turn to discuss his thesis work with Prof. Josep Samitier Martí from University of Barcelona 🇪🇸 as opponent and Hongbo overseeing as custos 🎩 Great work!

📢 Public defence in drug development 💊

🧑‍🎓 MSc Chengcheng Li will publicly defend their thesis in drug development with the thesis “Engineering Intelligent Multifunctional Nanoplatforms for Combination Cancer Therapy” on Monday, 29.6.2026 at 13:00 in auditorium Argentum, Henrikinkatu 2.

🧑‍🏫 Professor Josep Samitier Marti, University of Barcelona will serve as opponent and custos is professor Hongbo Zhang, Åbo Akademi University.

📖 The doctoral dissertation can be read at the publications repository Doria:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/195194

🔗 You are welcome to attend the public defence of this doctoral thesis online, see comments section for link 👇

Engineering Intelligent Multifunctional Nanoplatforms for Combination Cancer Therapy

Concluding three intensive days with parting ways - youngsters staying for the lipid workshop, the elderly having to take very early (and still full) morning trains to reach their flights to Turku / Amsterdam in time 🚂 🌎 🥱 Thanks for a wonderful event as always ❤️ ⚕️ 💊 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇸🇪

Challenging trip but all five PSL:ers accounted for 😃 TKU-CPH flight cancelled, HKI-CPH flights fully booked...railroad construction between Copenhagen and Odense so less trains and not possible to book seats on the full trains; track construction also on the tramline so tram not coming to campus 🚧 Even campus construction ongoing so not so easy to find the right building 😁 But here we are and here we go 💯👍 🔛

APPLICATION OPEN NOW 🏆

Nominations for the Albert Wuokko Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis 2023-2026 in Pharmaceutical Sciences The Finnish Pharmaceutical Society is delighted to announce the call for nominations for the prestigious Albert Wuokko Award for the best doctoral thesis. This biennial award, valued at 4000 euros, is the highest recognition in the pharmaceutical field in Finland and provides a fantastic opportunity...

Once again, the show is 🔛 Today we are following the PhD defense in Pharmacy ⚕️ by Meixin Ran 🧑‍🎓 discussing her thesis with opponent, Prof. Twan Lammers from RWTH Aachen University Hospital 🏥 in Germany. Hongbo overseeing as custos 🎩 and mouth already watering from thinking of all the delicious food that awaits us at Aura Yangtze in case of a favourable outcome 🤤

👨‍🎓 Public defence of doctoral thesis in Pharmacy – MSc Meixin Ran will publicly defend her doctoral thesis at the Department of Natural and Health Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University on Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 at 1 p.m. (Finnish time) in Aud. Argentum, Aurum building (Henriksgatan 2, Åbo).

📖 The thesis is entitled "Development of Functional Nanomaterials for Ocular Drug Therapy".

👩‍🏫 Professor Twan Lammers, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, will serve as opponent, and custos is Professor Hongbo Zhang.

💻 The electronic version of the doctoral dissertation is available in database Doria: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/194675

🔗 The public defence can also be attended online, please see comments section for Zoom link ⬇️

Development of Functional Nanomaterials for Ocular Drug Therapy

Check out this nice article by our colleague Dr. Shiqi Wang in the latest issue of KEMIA-KEMI:

How nanocarriers deliver drugs inside cells Most of today’s most exciting drugs must work inside cells, yet many never make it past the cell’s own membrane-bound “security system”. My group uses advanced imaging and chemical biological reporters, to track how nano-sized drug carriers navigate the crowded cellular maze and to design ca...