Portrait-style announcement graphic featuring Samuli Ripatti seated indoors in a modern, glass-lined university building. He is wearing glasses, a brown blazer, and a light shirt, looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. Text on the image reads: “FIMM – Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE Unit” (top left), “Samuli Ripatti” (name), “Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters – Warm congratulations!” The bottom section includes teal branding with an owl illustration and the University of Helsinki logo.

Today, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters announced its 36 newly elected members for 2026, including our Director, Samuli Ripatti @sripatti.bsky.social. Warm congratulations to him and to all the new members!
Read more:
acadsci.fi/en/members-c...
@hilife-helsinki.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for a Research Technician/Laboratory Manager position in hematology research at FIMM, University of Helsinki, featuring a stylized blue chromosome and the text “Apply by 8 May.”

We’re hiring! Join Mikko Myllymäki's research group at FIMM as a Research Technician / Laboratory Manager in Hematology Research to work at the intersection of genomics, immunology & cancer in a collaborative, international environment.
📍 Helsinki
📅 Apply by 8 May
👉 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Portrait of a young woman with long light brown hair wearing a black top, smiling gently at the camera. Her photo is framed inside a teal circular border, overlaid on a stylized background featuring a large turquoise chromosome-like structure. Below the image, text reads: “FIMM Young Investigator of the Month – Ida Vänttinen, Doctoral Researcher / Väitöskirjatutkija.”

The FIMM Young Investigator of the month for February 2026 is Ida Vänttinen. Warm congratulations to her for her recent first-author publication "Drivers of clinical resistance to venetoclax and hypomethylating agents in acute myeloid leukemia and strategies for improving efficacy" in HemaSphere. 🎉

Elisabeth Widén, Vice Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)

We are highlighting voices from EU-LIFE member institutes that embody the alliance's priorities.

Today, we showcase #Mission with Elisabeth Widén, Vice Director of @fimm-uh.bsky.social in #Helsinki ➡️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#WeAreEULIFE

Uudet aseet syöpää vastaan – millaista on sairastuneen arki tulevaisuudessa? Huomenta Suomen vieraina Faronin lääketieteellinen johtaja Petri Bono ja Helsingin ja Uudenmaan sairaanhoitopiiri HUS:n tutkijalääkäri Mikko Myllymäki.

Uusin ryhmänjohtajamme Mikko Myllymäki vieraili eilen Huomenta Suomen lähetyksessä kertomassa uusista syöpähoidoista yhdessä Faronin Petri Bonon kanssa.

Kiinnostava haastattelu kannattaa käydä katsomassa täältä:
www.mtv.fi/lyhyet/c504c...

"On tärkeää, ettei meille synny villi järjestelmä" – Tekoäly tuntee pian suomalaisten terveyshistorian ja osaa ennustaa potilaiden tulevia terveystapahtumia, ennakoi Olli Kallioniemi.

"Meidän on Suomessa syytä miettiä ja koordinoida sitä, miten data- ja tekoälyvetoiseen terveydenhuoltoon suhtaudutaan ja miten sitä hyödynnetään. Muutos tapahtuu joka tapauksessa."
Lisää Olli Kallioniemen ajatuksia löydät Lääkärilehden tuoreesta haastattelusta:
🔗 www.laakarilehti.fi/terveydenhuo...

"From Cells to Systems: Advances in High-Content Imaging and 3D Image Analysis" symposium brings together top speakers to showcase the latest in 3D imaging, drug screening & integrative omics.
📆 12 May
📍Biomedicum Helsinki, LH2
Register by 5 May: www.lyyti.fi/reg/from_cel...

Voiko tekoäly tehdä saman kuin lääkäri — tai enemmän? Tulevaisuudessa tekoäly ei ainoastaan jäljittele lääkärin työtä – esimerkiksi tunnistamalla mammografiakuvista syöpäkasvaimia tai tulkitsemalla sydänkäyriä. Se voi löytää valtavista tietomassoista yht

Mielenkiintoista kuunneltavaa viikonlopuksi! 🎧
Miten tekoälyä hyödynnetään lääkärin työssä, sairauksien tunnistamisessa ja tutkimuksessa? Ja miltä näyttää tulevaisuus? Suomen Lääketieteen Säätiön tuoreessa podcastissa haastateltavana tutkimusjohtaja Olli Kallioniemi.
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Accompanied by beautiful sunshine (☀️), today brought wonderful opportunities to gain new insights and connections at HiLIFE Research Infrastructure Day 2026!

Thank you all for participating - let's keep nurturing our top-class infrastructure services & life science research!🔬

Teal FIMM announcement graphic about 1–3 year grants from the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, featuring a central photo of a wildflower bouquet in a vase. Text congratulates all FIMM-affiliated grant recipients. New projects: Mikko Myllymäki, Heidi Haikala, Caroline Heckman, Panu Luukkonen, Rafa Najumudeen, Aarno Palotie. Continuing projects: Tero Aittokallio, Andrea Ganna, Eliisa Kekäläinen, Mika Kontro, Johan Lundin, Miina Ollikainen, Teijo Pellinen, Matti Pirinen, Esa Pitkänen and Tiinamaija Tuomi.

We noticed that one name was accidentally missing from the image – apologies for that. Here is the updated image!

Promotional poster for a doctoral dissertation featuring a teal background with a diagonal banner reading “Doctoral Dissertation.” The name Veera Timonen is prominently displayed alongside the thesis title, “Multimodal investigation of hematological features in healthy blood donors.” The event details are listed: 27 March 2026 at 13:00, Biomedicum Helsinki, Lecture hall 2. The opponent is Guillaume Jacquemet from the University of Turku & Åbo Akademi, Finland. On the right side, there is a circular portrait of a blonde woman wearing glasses and a black top, set within a white-bordered frame. At the bottom are institutional logos for the University of Helsinki and FIMM (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE unit).

Upcoming FIMM dissertation! 📢
MSc Veera Timonen from @epitkanen.bsky.social's group will defend her doctoral dissertation "Multimodal investigation of hematological features in healthy blood donors" @helsinki.fi on 27 March at 13:00. Welcome!
🔗 tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

Bioimage Analysis Course 2026 | Bioimaging | University of Helsinki Improve your Bioimage Analysis Skills!

📢 Do you want to strengthen your image analysis skills? Helsinki BioImaging is organizing the Bioimage Analysis Course 2026

📅 Lectures: 4 & 6 May; Hands-on: 5-13 May
📍 Biomedicum & Haartman Institute, Helsinki 🇫🇮
⏳ Registration deadline: 29 March
🔗 More info: www.helsinki.fi/en/infrastru...

Teal FIMM announcement graphic about 1–3 year grants from the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, featuring a central photo of a wildflower bouquet in a vase. Text congratulates all FIMM-affiliated grant recipients. New projects: Mikko Myllymäki, Heidi Haikala, Caroline Heckman, Panu Luukkonen, Rafa Najumudeen, Aarno Palotie. Continuing projects: Tero Aittokallio, Andrea Ganna, Eliisa Kekäläinen, Mika Kontro, Johan Lundin, Miina Ollikainen, Teijo Pellinen, Matti Pirinen and Tiinamaija Tuomi.

The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has announced its 1–3 year grant recipients. Great to see strong success among FIMM researchers 🎉.
Congratulations to all & thank you @sigridjuselius.bsky.social for supporting top-level medical research in Finland!

Read more: www.sigridjuselius.fi/en/news/new-...

Promotional graphic for “The Genetics Podcast” featuring a portrait of a man wearing round glasses and a striped sweater against an orange background with faint DNA letters. Large white text reads: “From polygenic scores to AI-driven medicine.” Smaller text below: “With Andrea Ganna of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland.” Episode number shown as “Ep 231.”

This week on The Genetics Podcast, @andganna.bsky.social joined host Patrick Short to discuss advances in genetics and data-driven medicine, including the the promise and limits of polygenic risk scores for disease prediction and clinical trials.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/e...

A welcome poster with the text “Welcome Maarja Jõelo!” at the top in blue. Below, a portrait of a smiling woman with long light brown hair wearing a dark green blouse, standing indoors near a railing with a softly lit background. At the bottom, a blue banner features the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions logo, the text “30 years – Curiosity that changes the world,” and a European Union emblem.

Warm congratulations to Maarja Jõeloo and his FIMM supervisor @srubinacci.bsky.social on a highly competitive MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! 👏
Maarja’s project, RepSIC, explores an exciting and under-studied area of human genetics: the role of repetitive DNA variants in shaping disease risk. Welcome!

#cambridge #excellence #weareeulife | EU-LIFE "Early on in my career, I knew that if I was going to dedicate such a large part of my life to research, it had to be in pursuit of big challenges. After completing a PhD studying mouse brains, I want...

We are highlighting voices from EU-LIFE member institutes that embody the alliance's priorities.

Today, we showcase #Excellence with Della David, Group Leader at the @babrahaminst.bsky.social in #Cambridge ⬇️

#WeAreEULIFE

A teal promotional poster for a doctoral dissertation featuring a portrait of Swapnil Potdar in a circular frame on the right. The left side displays the title “Doctoral Dissertation,” the name “Swapnil Potdar,” and the thesis topic: “Bioinformatics tools for quality control, analysis, and mining of drug screening data.” Event details are listed as 20 March 2026 at 13:00, held at University Main Building, Tekla Hultin Hall. The opponent is Matti Nykter from Tampere University. Logos for the University of Helsinki and FIMM (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE Unit) appear at the bottom.

Upcoming FIMM dissertation! 📢
Swapnil Potdar will defend his thesis "Bioinformatics tools for quality control, analysis, and mining of drug screening data" in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences @helsinki.fi on 20 March at 13:00. Welcome!
🔗 tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

FIMM welcomes new Group Leader Mikko Myllymäki | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki Physician-scientist Mikko Myllymäki has joined FIMM as our new FIMM-EMBL Group Leader. His research focuses on clonal hematopoiesis, a phenomenon in which genetic alterations accumulate in blood stem ...

FIMM is happy to welcome a new Group Leader Mikko Myllymäki, MD, PhD! His research sits at the intersection of clinical hematology, genomics & immunology, focusing on how genetic alterations arising in blood stem cells during aging influence human health and disease.
www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

Pan-cancer tumour classification and risk stratification from whole-genome somatic variants via dual-task representation learning Tumour typing from whole-genome sequencing is increasingly accurate, yet molecular subtyping from somatic variants remains challenging because of tumour heterogeneity and inconsistent clinical annotat...

Our new preprint: dual-task learning in >17k cancer WGS.
Somatic variant models can transfer across datasets, but dataset shift strongly affects performance. Cross-cohort validation is essential.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

@fimm-uh.bsky.social @mlbiomed.bsky.social

Women’s health is under-researched – Pioneering study lays the groundwork for more equal and precise medicine | University of Helsinki Researchers at the University of Helsinki are using extensive genomic data that will help more effectively and precisely to identify, treat and prevent diseases occurring in women.

Women's health is globally under-researched. At FIMM, @helsinki.fi, we are building a new and more equitable foundation for personalized medicine. By donating you can support our work!
Read more from the interview with our Vice Director, Elisabeth Widén:
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/one-...

Naisten terveys on maailmanlaajuisesti alitutkittua, mikä näkyy sekä diagnostiikassa että hoidossa.

Lahjoittamalla naisten terveystutkimukseen autat meitä täällä FIMMissä rakentamaan yksilölliselle lääketieteelle uutta, yhdenvertaisempaa perustaa:
www.helsinki.fi/fi/innovaati...

Study reveals genetic balancing act between autoimmunity and cancer risk Researchers pinpoint genetic factors linked to both higher risk of a common autoimmune disorder and lower cancer risk

Large-scale FinnGen-based study by Reeve et al., just published in Nature Genetics, provides the most detailed genetic map of autoimmune hypothyroidism to date and reveals a surprising inverse relationship between hypothyroidism risk and skin cancer risk.
www.broadinstitute.org/news/study-r...

Portrait of Tero Aittokallio, professor, smiling, in a black shirt against a blue background. To the left is a quote: "FIMM provides an excellent environment for early-career computational scientists to become leaders in translational research. What makes FIMM unique is easy access to large-scale data cohorts, close collaboration between clinical, experimental and computational researchers, and long-term support from the institute leadership toward multi-disciplinary grand challenge projects with a real clinical impact.” Below the quote: Tero Aittokallio, Professor FIMM-EMBL Group Leader 2011-2020 University of Helsinki and FIMM logos appear at the top right.

We are recruiting 1-2 early-stage Group Leaders in Data Science and AI for Molecular & Health Data!
This is an excellent chance for an ambitious data scientist to build your own team as a FIMM-EMBL Group Leader @helsinki.fi.

Apply here by 15 March:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Spotlight on Eva D'haene, NORPOD Fellow | Nordic Embl Partners

Welcome to Eva D'haene, the newest @nordicembl.bsky.social NORPOD Fellow!
Eva works with @hkilpinen.bsky.social at FIMM & @thomasdwkim.bsky.social at DANDRITE, and together they are investigating chromatin regulators in neurodevelopment and disease.
🔗 www.nordicemblpartnership.org/items/spotli...

Portrait of Simone Rubinacci, PhD, smiling and seated, wearing a black top. Blue background. To the right is a quote: "What makes FIMM special is how seamlessly everything is integrated. Biologists, clinicians, and data scientists work closely together, not just in theory but in practice. On top of that, access to large-scale national data enables us to ask questions that simply couldn’t be explored elsewhere." Below the quote: Simone Rubinacci, PhD FIMM-EMBL Group Leader since 2024 Logos of the University of Helsinki and FIMM are at the top right.

We are recruiting 1-2 early-stage Group Leaders in Data Science and AI for Molecular & Health Data!
If you dream of analysing population-scale datasets with cutting-edge tech, Finland is calling!
Apply here by 15 March:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
@helsinki.fi @hilife-helsinki.bsky.social

#mdc #berlin #barcelona #milan #ieo #internationality #weareeulife | EU-LIFE “Science is a journey — more like a backpacking trip than an all-inclusive vacation at a resort. It takes you to unexpected places, and real discoveries come not from the comfort of a tour bus but fro...

We are highlighting voices from EU-LIFE member institutes that embody the alliance's priorities.

Today, we showcase #Internationality with Martin Schaefer, Group Leader at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan ⬇️

#WeAreEULIFE

A teal-colored graphic titled ‘FIMM Young Investigator of the Month.’ On the left is a photo of Adithi Sundaresh, the December 2025 awardee, smiling and wearing a red top. On the right is a photo of Mikaela Hukkanen, the January 2026 awardee, smiling and wearing a black shirt with sunglasses on her head. Logos for FIMM and the University of Helsinki appear in the top right.

We’re happy to introduce FIMM’s latest Young Investigators of the Month!
• Adithi Sundaresh (cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders)
• Mikaela Hukkanen (mechanisms of biological aging)
Congrats to both on recent first-author publications!
www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

An in vivo and in vitro spatiotemporal profile of human midbrain development - Nature Communications This study provides a comprehensive profile of human fetal midbrain development and its comparison with lab-grown midbrain cultures. These findings demonstrate that midbrain organoids recapitulate fet...

Read the original @natcomms.nature.com publication:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study maps human midbrain development and validates stem cell models for disease research | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki The study provides the most detailed spatiotemporal profile to date of early human midbrain development, offering a powerful new reference for neuroscience and regenerative medicine.

A study from @hkilpinen.bsky.social's lab provides the most detailed spatiotemporal profile to date of early human midbrain development, and validates stem cell models for disease research, offering a powerful new reference for neuroscience and regenerative medicine.
www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

A screenshot of the web page of the NeuroCOV project where the interview has been published, with a photo of Tatiana Cajuso.

To celebrate the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, NeuroCOV project interviewed our very own Tatiana Cajuso about what truly supports women in academia and how inclusive research environments can shape the way science serves society:
neurocov.eu/news-events/...
#IDWGS #WomenInSTEM