FinPharmaNet is a collaboration of Drug Research Doctoral Programmes from the University of Turku, University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. There were also representatives from the Universities of Jyväskylä, Oulu, Tampere and Åbo Akademi, as well as  from the industry.

This year’s meeting was held in Kuopio on June 12-13. The meeting consisted of interesting presentations from the field of drug research and career path presentations from the angle of PhD’s working in the industry and academia. For doctoral researchers there were two presentation sessions. Our groups doctoral researcher Edla held an oral presentation on the development of [¹¹C]phosgene synthesis. Although the meeting was very busy there was also some time left for networking among other doctoral researchers.