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Research environment
The instrumental and laboratory infrastructure is well suited for the present research 
profile, and the unit has recently invested in new NMR equipment essential for the 
metabolomics projects. The unit is however rather critical in its own assessment of the 
research environment at the Kuopio Campus. Following the formation of UEF in 
2009, the Department of Chemistry was enrolled under the Department of 
Biosciences, and the chemistry unit expresses concerns of the future of the research 
on biological chemistry at the Kuopio Campus. They are seeing the merger of the 
University of Kuopio and the University of Joensuu both as an opportunity and a 
threat, sensing that chemistry is not being prioritised within the human biosciences 
strategic topic in Kuopio.