Interview with Claudio Oliviero, Adjunct Professor, Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

”In this work, I always appreciated the possibility not only to satisfy my scientific interest but also to make a wider difference”, begins Claudio Oliviero in a meeting room in the Viikki animal hospital. Focused on the physiology of sow (female pig), Dr Oliviero’s research looks at the factors influencing successful birth and the survival of the newly born piglets. “Our work is important for the health and welfare of the animals and for the ensuing production. Today sows are having more piglets than in the past. If the piglets do better and grow well and require less treatment with, for instance, antibiotics, there are economic benefits for the production companies and health benefits for the consumer”, Oliviero explains.

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Interview with Hannes Lohi, Professor in Molecular Genetics
Department of Veterinary Bioscienes, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, Faculty of Medicine

Dogs share a similar gene and disease heritage with humans with a unique population history and breed structure. They also share the environment and even the same lifestyle as family members. This makes them great models for genetic research because identifying genes for complex diseases is possible from a much smaller collection of samples than in humans.

First in the world, professor Hannes Lohi together with his partners in the Genoscoper company developed a genetic test for dogs analyzing more than a hundred diseases and traits and the genetic structure with just one sample. This innovation opens up possibilities for better understanding of disease mechanisms and for improvements in diagnostic methods for veterinarians, treatments and drug development. Professor Lohi has started and developed numerous spin-off companies and helped find investors for other researchers’ companies as well.

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The business collaboration team started a new service to help faculties and centres in strategic business collaboration planning. The “Business Collaboration Accelerator” is a year-long programme to map the faculty’s current business collaboration situation and to make the most of the possible under-utilised potential.

Together with the researchers, we analyse where the faculty’s or centre’s business strengths lie and where there are possibilities for collaboration and external funding. The programme starts with a survey and interviews, continues with a facilitated dialogue about the faculty’s aims and needs and goes on to tailored training on identified issues for interested researchers. Throughout the programme, we provide extensive communication through social media, blog posts, and success stories in the university’s internal and external news.

According to the needs of the faculty’s researchers, we organise also match-making events and build a business collaboration network for interested reseachers through which we offer information about funding and collaboration opportunities, training and events and seminars also in the future.

The first faculty to pilot our programme is the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. In this blog, we publish news about the pilot and interviews with many of the faculty’s researchers that have extensive experience in business collaboration. Stay tuned, sit back and enjoy!

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