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title: "Back to the Roots: This is Where It Started!"
description: Niklas Sandler visits Åbo Akademi University in Turku to explore the origins of CurifyLabs' CSS technology and shares nostalgic insights and scientific revelations. Tune in for more!
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# [Back to the Roots: This is Where It Started!](https://news.curifylabs.com/back-to-the-roots-niklas-sandler-is-the-medicine-maker-in-turku)

 Written by [Curify Labs](https://news.curifylabs.com/author/curify-labs) | 23.4.2025

#### Follow Our CTO & Founder, Niklas Sandler Topelius on YouTube

We are happy to announce a new YouTube channel, hosted by Niklas Sandler Topelius. Niklas will take you to the lab and speak about topics related to non-sterile compounding.

In this episode of our new series, our top influencer and co-founder <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAAzwkBcn12My3fI3vly9EVCnmvdslD4Rk>[Niklas Sandler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-sandler-80926/) heads to the birthplace of CurifyLabs’ CSS technology – Turku, and more specifically, the legendary halls of [Åbo Akademi University](https://www.linkedin.com/company/abo-akademi-university/)!

🧻 Did you know the first tests were run on an inkjet printer from a local supermarket in 2010?  
💊 What was the very first printed dosage form?  
🚗 And which pharmaceutics professor drives the coolest car in the academic universe? Spoiler: check out Professor <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAA1TIIkB4FZTv3JnehXmCnNhLTO5hJc2qJo>[Jessica Rosenholm](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rosenholm-1a1a4a62/)

Find out all this and more – it’s nostalgia, science, and mild chaos all in one.

 

🎧 Tune in here: [https://lnkd.in/gi5QZgbf](https://lnkd.in/gi5QZgbf)

 

Don't hesitate to comment, share, subscribe, and most importantly,  prepare to say:  “I was into non-sterile compounding before it was cool.”!

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