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18.06.2018

Tuuli Lappalainen receives the third Leena Peltonen Prize for Excellence in Human Genetics

07.06.2018

Maheswary Muniandy’s dissertation reveals the many faces of obesity

07.06.2018

Alok Jaiswal’s dissertation demonstrates the impact of computational approaches on data integration in cancer research

05.06.2018

Call open: First ever joint FIMMPOD-pharma recruitment

25.05.2018

Samuli Eldfors’ dissertation demonstrates the clinical significance of somatic mutations in leukemias

15.05.2018

Low birthweight linked to left-handedness

11.05.2018

Andrew Erickson’s dissertation improves the outcome prediction of prostate cancer

03.05.2018

Largest-ever family study of migraine provides new insight into the disease

23.04.2018

FIMM Monthly Publication Highlight March 2018: ADA2 deficiency: Clonal lymphoproliferation in a subset of patients

19.04.2018

Novel dis­cov­er­ies on ag­gress­ive NK-cell leuk­emia pave the way for new treat­ments

Highlights

Largest-ever family study of migraine provides new insight into the disease

An international research consortium has shown that an accumulation of many independent genetic risk variants is the reason why migraine tends to run in families. The genetic burden was shown to be greater in patients that...

Mark Daly nominated as the new Director of FIMM

The University of Helsinki has recruited Professor Mark Daly of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to lead the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM). Daly is a distinguished...

FinnGen taps into a unique gene pool to find the next breakthroughs in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment

A unique study has been launched in Finland that will deepen our understanding about the origins of diseases and their treatment. The FinnGen study plans to tap into 500 000 unique blood samples collected by a nation-wide network...

Team iCombine selected as the winner of the Helsinki Challenge idea competition

The winner of the science-based idea competition Hel­sinki Chal­lenge was announced 24 November. The prize was di­vided between two teams. An international jury selected teams iCombine and HeatStock as the winners and both will...

Two FIMM researchers ranking in the top 1% most cited

FIMM is proud to host two of the "2017 Highly Cited Researchers", Director of FIMM, Academy Professor Jaakko Kaprio and Professor of Biometry, FIMM-EMBL Group Leader Samuli Ripatti.

Latest publications

Plasma metabolites reveal distinct profiles associating with different metabolic risk factors in monozygotic twin pairs. Read full article
Prognostic, predictive and pharmacogenomic assessments of CDX2 refine stratification of colorectal cancer. Read full article
Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes. Read full article
Simultaneous measurement of folate cycle intermediates in different biological matrices using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Read full article
Aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence: the role of smoking during pregnancy, evidence from four twin cohorts in the EU-ACTION consortium. Read full article

Latest blog posts

Future of Healthcare - Genomic Medicine: Part 1
20.11.2017 |
  • Shabbeer Hassan
Good Science Communication: Benefits for the Audience and the Scientist
20.04.2017 |
  • Lea Urpa
FIMM Meets Pharma - Through the doctoral student’s Looking Glass
14.12.2016 |
  • Elina Parri
A Biobank – What is in it for a Researcher?
30.11.2016 |
  • Tiina Vesterinen
In/consistency in drug sensitivity profiling
04.11.2016 |
  • Tero Aittokallio

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07.06.2018 FIMM Special Seminar by Sara Hägg

Sara Hägg from Karolinska Institutet will talk about "Molecular epidemiology of aging: insights from longitudinal studies on epigenetics".

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