TYKS Foundation travel grants

TYKS Foundation is an independent foundation not funded by TYKS.  In these times of financial constraints, the funding it provides is vitally important for research because it is not excluded from the rest of TYKS' activities. For 2024, the Board of the TYKS Foundation has allocated a record amount of €300,000 (€147,880 in 2023). In February, €250,000 in research and travel grants was awarded. An additional €42,000 in travel grants has now been awarded to a total of 34 applicants.

“We are very pleased to be able to support research this year with a larger sum than ever before. TYKS Foundation specifically targets its support at research and promising young researchers in the early stages of their research careers. Participation in international conferences and research meetings is an essential part of a researcher's work. The recipients of the travel grant now include doctoral researchers for whom it is important to share their results,” says Minna Lukkarinen, Executive Director of TYKS Foundation and a specialist in paediatrics.

Now, 19 medical and dental researchers and 15 nursing and health science researchers received travel grants.

The TYKS Foundation supports a wide range of research in the fields of medicine, nursing and health sciences carried out in the TYKS area, which benefits the development of science and patient care. Here are four examples of different recipients of travel grants:

• Taru Garthwaite, M.H.Sc., PET Centre, abstract, Glasgow, Scotland 7/2024. The 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (€1,000)
  • Links between sedentary lifestyle, physical activity and fitness and metabolic health
• Sonja Gilbert, PhD, psychiatry, abstract, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5/2024. IACAPAP 2024 congress (€1,700)
  • Increasing the mental health literacy of first-year medical students in Finland, Lithuania and Argentina through the digital Transitions programme
• Docent Pilvi Riihilä, D.Med.Sc., Dermatology, presentation/abstract, Lisbon, Portugal. 9/2024.
  The 53rd Annual ESDR European Society for dermatological research (€1,000)
  • Macrophage-derived C1q in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Emma Saha Lic.Med., paediatrics, poster, Toronto, Canada. 5/2024.
  PAS meeting (€2,000).
  • Imaging of tissue changes associated with hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury in newborns using PET markers

See all travel grant recipients.

The TYKS Foundation provides information on its website (www.tykssaatio.fi) about the progress of previously funded studies as researcher stories. On the foundation's website, you can find, among other things, stories about the 2023 grant recipients Juha Knaapila, D.Med.Sc., LL.M., in urology and Akseli Reunamo, M.A., in artificial intelligence research, about the significance of their travel grants.  

Jarmo Karppi Award for Docent Päivi Lähteenmäki

In May 2024, TYKS Foundation also awarded for the first time a €15,000 recognition prize named after its major donor Jarmo Karppi. The prize was awarded to Docent Päivi Lähteenmäki. - In the award press release, read more about Päivi Lähteenmäki's award for research into the late effects of childhood and adolescent cancer on cancer survivors and the development of treatment.