Kuopio Brain & Mind is a regional neuroscience collaboration network in Eastern Finland, bringing together University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Wellbeing Services County of North Savo, including Kuopio University Hospital (KUH) and hospitals in its collaborative area; Mikkeli Central Hospital and North Carelia Central Hospital, various enterprises, CROs, and other ecosystem actors, including patient associations.
Under the umbrella of Neurocenter Finland, our mission is to promote brain health through life by improved understanding of disease mechanisms, better early diagnostics, and development of personalized medicine approaches for brain disorders.
We strive to realize our mission through actions that foster multidisciplinary research collaborations and innovations, taking into account patient involvement and patient rights.
Kuopio Brain & Mind brings together a large community of different career-stage basic and clinical researchers, health care professionals, and experts in law, ethics, business, and innovations.
We have a decades’ long expertise in clinical, basic, and translational research in different brain disorders and utilize unique, well-characterized patient cohorts, which include biological samples and detailed clinical, genetic, and biomarker data, as well as a wide variety of different in vitro and in vivo model systems. Kuopio Brain & Mind researchers also have outstanding national and international research networks.
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