Collaboration - May 23, 2016
Joint project between UPM and FIMM
The Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), at the University of Helsinki and UPM Biochemicals have started a joint research project with the purpose of investigating the applicability of UPM’s new cellulose-based gel material for cancer research. The project focuses on growing cancer cells on a three-dimensional culture using UPM’s new biomaterial and studying the […]
Uncategorized - April 26, 2016
Strongest single gene conclusively implicated in schizophrenia
An international consortium of researchers has discovered conclusive evidence for the involvement of a gene called SETD1A in schizophrenia. Damaging changes to this gene, which occur rarely, increase the risk of schizophrenia 35-fold and also increase risk for a wide range of neurodevelopmental disorders. The consortium led by a team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger […]
Profiles in Science - December 26, 2015
Jaakko Kaprio
Ensuring the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) continues to lead at home in the molecular medicine field and grows in international prominence are among the goals of FIMM’s new director Dr. Jaakko Kaprio. “Molecular medicine is evolving rapidly and we need an institute in Finland that is at the forefront of the area of […]
In a new job - October 5, 2015
A new Director of FIMM
Academy of Finland Professor, M.D., Ph.D. Jaakko Kaprio has been appointed the new Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM). Kaprio takes up this position in October 2015. Since 2001 he has served as a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki and as a Research Professor […]
