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15.10.2018

Attending ASHG 2018 in San Diego? So are we!

12.10.2018

FIMM Research Director Janna Saarela appointed as Director of the NCMM in Oslo

11.10.2018

Muntasir Mamun Majumder’s thesis establishes the next level of precision medicine for myeloma

02.10.2018

IDG-DREAM Drug Kinase Binding Prediction Challenge is open

01.10.2018

FIMMPOD Annual Call for Postdoctoral Researchers at FIMM now Open

28.09.2018

Heikki Kuusanmäki’s dissertation verifies the importance of cell survival signaling pathways in leukemia

29.08.2018

New FIMMPOD initiative: promoting industry-academia partnerships with joint postdoc positions

24.08.2018

Poojitha Ojamies’ dissertation provides valuable insights on treating cancer

23.08.2018

Riku Turkki’s doctoral thesis demonstrates the potential of computer vision in analysis of cancer histopathology

13.08.2018

Khalid Saeed’s dissertation shows why it pays to be an early adopter

Highlights

IDG-DREAM Drug Kinase Binding Prediction Challenge is open

FIMM researchers are organizing the IDG-DREAM Drug Kinase Binding Prediction Challenge that benchmarks machine learning models in the effort to accelerate mapping of drug-target space by prioritizing most potent compound-target...

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...

Latest publications

Is Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Bdnf) Associated With Smoking Initiation? Replication Using a Large Finnish Population Sample. Read full article
Obstructive sleep apnoea and the risk for coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal population-based study in Finland. Read full article
Phenome-wide association studies across large population cohorts support drug target validation. Read full article
Metformin increases glucose uptake and acts renoprotectively by reducing SHIP2 activity. Read full article
Immediate verbal recall and familial dementia risk: population-based study of over 4000 twins. 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

Upcoming events

23.10.2018 Susanne Hultsch's doctoral defense

Susanne Hultsch will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled: "Seven shades of tamoxifen resistance - Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in breast cancer".

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