2 December 2025

Congratulations Marjaana, for being awarded a research grant by Cancer Foundation Finland!

30 October 2025

Big congratulations to Cecilia for receiving Research Council of Finland Center of Excellence funding for Immune-Endothelial Interactions (IMMENs)!

The funding was awarded to a team of four researchers from University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University, led by Taija Makinen (UH) and completed by Guillaume Jacquemet (ÅAU), Cecilia Sahlgren (ÅAU), and Kari Vaahtomeri (UH). The project will run for the period of 2026-2033 and explore the interactions between the lymphatic endothelium and immune cells during localized immune response. Read more here.

28 October 2025

Cecilia gave a presentation in the Annual Fin3R Symposium to share the updates on the Tumor Lymph Node on Chip project.

24 October 2025

Congratulations to Janine for the successful defense of her thesis “Engineering models for mechanobiology of cellular migration during angiogenesis” at TU/e!

23 October 2025

Cecilia appears on the podcast “In her shoes” hosted by Jana Mwangi to talk about the group´s research. Listen to it here. 

15-17 October 2025

The kick-off meeting for the ERC-SyG project “Making Blood” was held at Hospital Del Mar Research Institute and University of Barcelona. Thanks to our hosts and collaborators in Barcelona, Spain for the wonderful time and the fruitful discussion!

26 September 2025

Congratulations to Sami for successfully defending his thesis “Molecular and Tissue-Level Insights into Notch Signaling”. Special thanks to Assoc. Prof. Emma Andersson for acting as his opponent!

25 September 2025

Thanks to Assoc. Prof. Emma Andersson (Karolinska Institutet) for sharing her exciting research in the CellCom Seminar hosted by Prof. Sahlgren.

15 September 2025

Congratulations to Erica for receiving a continuation stipend for one year from Victoriastiftelsen!

05 August 2025

Read Freddy´s piece on “Why I believe a career in academia is still a path worth pursuing” at Tieteentekijät´s website!

30 May 2025

Congratulations to Cansu, Carlijn, Cecilia, and Sandra for the publicaion of Equibiaxial and uniaxial cyclic strain similarly affect Notch signaling and vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in 2D (Karakaya et al., 2025, Integr Biol (Camb).). And congratulations to Leila, Cecilia, and Carlijn for the publication of Dynamic substrate topographies drive actin- and vimentin-mediated nuclear mechanoprotection events in human fibroblasts (Bril et al., 2025, BMC).

7 March 2025

Congratulations to William for a successful defense from the Koskinen lab (co-supervised by Professor Sahlgren)! You can find his thesis here:PIM kinases in luminal A breast cancer: A study of three novel substrates. Thanks to Prof. Marc Vooijs ( Maastricht University) for acting as William´s opponent!

30 January 2025

Congratulations Freddy, for being awarded research grant from Magnus Ehrnrooth!

28 February 2025

Congratulations to Janine, Carlijn, and Cecilia for the publicaion of 2.5D Model for Ex Vivo Mechanical Characterization of Sprouting Angiogenesis in Living Tissue (Grolleman et al., 2025, J. Vis. Exp.).