Grants for Researchers in Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Engineering

The Instrumentarium Science Foundation has awarded a total of EUR 1.6 million in grants to researchers in medicine, the natural sciences and technology. Altogether, 41 individual researchers or research groups received funding. The Foundation’s largest grants, each worth EUR 150,000, were awarded to MD Juha Gogulski (Aalto University), MD Jussi Nikkola (University of Turku) and MD Maykel López Rodríguez (University of Eastern Finland).

A total of 399 applications were submitted in the 2026 grant call, requesting funding of approximately EUR 15 million. The Instrufoundation Fellow grant attracted 27 applications with a combined requested amount of EUR 3.8 million. Postdoctoral grants were applied for by 45 researchers, with total requests of EUR 2.8 million. Doctoral research grants accounted for 307 applications, amounting to EUR 7.5 million.

The Foundation’s Board awarded three Instrufoundation Fellow grants of EUR 150,000 each. In addition, postdoctoral grants totalling EUR 486,500 were awarded, as well as 25 grants for doctoral researchers, amounting to EUR 531,500 in total. Three EUR 50,000 Silmu grants, aimed at supporting science-based entrepreneurship, were awarded to Incight Biomedical Oy, Cortisys Oy and Solid Immuno-Oncology Oy (Solid IO). In total, the Board awarded 41 grants, corresponding to approximately 10% of all submitted applications.

Press release, February 11, 2026

“EUR 1.6 million for top-level Finnish research and technology”

The grant recipients will be announced at a public award ceremony on February 11, 2026, at the Astoria Hall, Iso Roobertinkatu 14, Helsinki.

The grants given in 2026 and before (in Finnish):