Research in the Nordic EMBL Partnership
Research at DANDRITE
Poul Nissen, DANDRITE Director
Professor Nissen is head of the Structural and Functional Studies of Membrane Transporters in Brain group.
Research focus: Protein structure-function of membrane proteins.
Anders Nykjær
Professor Anders Nykjær is a Core Group Leader and head of the Receptor Biology Group at DANDRITE.
Research focus: Cell Biology and animal modeling of neuronal membrane receptor systems.
Poul Henning Jensen
Professor Henning Jensen is a Core Group Leader and head of the Neurodegenerative Disease Laboratory Group.
Research focus: Molecular neurodegenerative studies.
Mark Denham
Dr. Mark Denham is head of the Stem Cells group.
Research focus: Human pluripotent stem cells.
Taro Kitazawa
Dr Taro Kitazawa is head of the Neuroplasticity group.
Research focus: Molecular basis of neuroplasticity, especially at the levels of epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms underlying memory engram plasticity using mice as model organism.
Duda Kvitsiani
Dr Kvitsiani is head of the Neuronal Basis of Decision-making in Fruit Flies and Mice group.
Research focus: Neuronal circuits and molecular basis of effort based decision-making.
Sadegh Nabavi
Dr. Nabavi is head of the Memory formation and consolidation at the synaptic and circuit levels Group.
Research focus: Memory formation and consolidation at the synaptic and circuit levels.
Hanne Poulsen
Dr. Poulsen is Team Leader of the Membrane Proteins team at DANDRITE and Assistant professor at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Research focus: sodium-potassium pump and transient receptor potential (TRP) channels.
Tomonori Takeuchi
Dr. Takeuchi is Team Leader at DANDRITE, an AIAS-COFUND fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), and associate professor at Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University.
Research focus: Memory selectivity and knowledge updating.
Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem
Dr Vanwalleghem is Team Leader at DANDRITE and Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Research focus: Gut-brain axis in larval zebrafish.
Keisuke Yonehara
Dr Yonehara is head of the Spatially Asymmetric Neural Circuits in Visual System group.
Research focus: Structure, function and development of neural circuits in visual system.
Research at FIMM
Mark Daly, FIMM Director & Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership
Professor Mark Daly is head of the Human Disease Genetics group.
Research focus: Human genetic discovery and translation activities.
Tero Aittokallio
Dr Aittokallio is head of the Computational Systems Medicine group.
Research focus: Network-centric and machine learning-based approaches to modeling and predicting complex relationships between genetic dependencies and medical phenotypes.
Andrea Ganna
Dr Andrea Ganna is head of the Data Science for Population-scale Registry and Biobank Data group.
Research focus: Statistical and deep learning approaches
Leif Groop
Professor Leif Groop is head of the Genomics of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders group.
Research focus: The heterogeneity of diabetes and the pathogenic events leading to type 2 diabetes.
Caroline Heckman
Dr Caroline Heckman is head of the Translational Research and Personalised Medicine group.
Research focus: Pathogenic and drug resistance mechanisms in hematological malignancies.
Peter Horvath
Dr Peter Horvath is head of the BIOMAG (Biological Image Analysis and Machine Learning Group).
Research focus: Microscopic image segmentation and tracking, Microscopic image correction techniques, and Machine Learning.
Olli Kallioniemi
Professor Olli Kallioniemi is head of the Individualised Systems Medicine Group.
Research focus: Precision cancer medicine
Jaakko Kaprio
Professor Jaakko Kaprio, Head of Genetic Epidemiology Group
Research focus: Genetic Epidemiology
Helena Kilpinen
Dr Helena Kilpinen is head of the Cellular Genetics of Disease group.
Research focus: Cellular genetics and the cellular basis of developmental and other brain-related disorders
Katja Kivinen, FIMM Research Director
Dr Katja Kivinen is head of the Genomics of Pre-eclampsia group.
Research focus: Pregnancy-related disorders, with focus on pre-eclampsia.
Mika Kontro
Dr Mika Kontro is head of the Individualized Therapies for Acute Leukemia group.
Research focus: forecasting treatment responses in acute myeloid leukemia; methods are developed in on-going prospective clinical trials to simultaneously validate their full clinical significance.
Johan Lundin
Professor Johan Lundin is head of the Clinical Informatics and Image-based Diagnostics Group.
Research focus: The group studies and develops methods for personalized prediction of disease outcome and image based diagnostics.
Hanna Ollila
Dr Hanna Ollila is a FIMM-Group Leader.
Research focus: Genetics of sleep.
Miina Ollikainen
Dr Miina Ollikainen is head of the Epigenetics of Complex Diseases and Traits Group.
Research focus: To assess the contribution of genome and epigenome to obesity and other complex diseases and traits using study designs suitable for twin and population-based cohorts.
Lassi Paavolainen
Dr. Lassi Paavolainen is head of the Bioimaging Profiling Group.
Research focus: Uncovering complex information from bioimages using machine learning.
Aarno Palotie
Dr. Aarno Palotie is head of the Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Group.
Research focus: The genetics of neurological, neurodevelopmental, and neuropsychiatric traits.
Matti Pirinen
Dr. Pirinen is head of the Computational Genomics Group.
Research focus: The group combines a thorough understanding of statistical modeling with real life experience on what works in practice.
Esa Pitkänen
Dr Esa Pitkänen is a FIMM-Group Leader.
Research focus: Esa group focuses novel machine learning and computational methods for biomedicine.
Samuli Ripatti, FIMM Vice Director
Professor Samuli Ripatti is head of the Statistical and Translational Genetics.
Research focus: Genome-wide variation and its relation to complex traits and diseases, with a particular focus, but not limited to, on cardiovascular diseases and metabolism.
Janna Saarela
Professor Janna Saarela is head of the Human Immune Disorders group (shared with NCMM).
Research focus: Improving the understanding of biological pathways and pathogenic mechanisms behind rare and common immune diseases
Taru Tukiainen
Dr. Taru Tukiainen is head of the Genomics of Sex Differences in Health and Disease Group.
Research focus: The investigation of sex biases in both genetic and transcriptomic data particularly utilizing the extensively-phenotyped Finnish population cohorts.
Emmy Verschuren
Dr. Emmy Verschuren is head of the Lung Cancer Model Systems Group.
Research focus: The biological properties of lung cancer drivers in their physiological complex microenvironment, and using this knowledge to build diagnostic models of lung cancer.
Eero Vuoksimaa
Dr. Eero Vuoksimaa is head of the Cognitive and Brain Ageing Group.
Research focus: The group aims to understand the pathways from protective and risk factors to old age cognition and brain health, aiming to improve the early identification of individuals with high risk of cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Elisabeth Widén
Dr. Elisabeth Widén is head of the Genes Influencing Puberty and Their Impact on Adult Health Group.
Research focus: The group seeks to uncover novel mutations and genes causing fatal arrhythmia, a disorder for which there is an urgent need for more accurate pre-symptomatic molecular diagnosis, and to elucidate the genetic and developmental framework underlying puberty.
Research at MIMS
Oliver Billker, MIMS Director
Dr. Oliver Billker is head of the Experimental Genomics of Malaria Transmission Group.
Research focus: Developing new genetic technologies to investigate how malaria parasites reproduce in mosquitoes and get transmitted
Jonas Barandun
Dr. Jonas Barandun is head of the Structural Biology in Infection Medicine Group.
Research focus: In vivo assays, biochemistry and cryo-electron microscopy to study macromolecular complexes of specialized pathogenic organisms
Ellen Bushell
Dr. Ellen Bushell is head of the Parasite-Host Interactions Group.
Research focus: Role of malaria parasite exported proteins in host-parasite interactions
Johan Henriksson
Dr Johan Henriksson is head of the T cell Systems Biology Group.
Research focus: T-cell biology using artificial intelligence
Richard Lundmark
Department of Integrative Medical Biology
Director of Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)
Research focus: Proteins and mechanisms that facilitate sculpting of cellular membranes into small vesicular structures
André Mateus
Department of Chemistry
Research focus: Understanding how proteins function in the species of the human gut microbiome
Andrea Puhar
Andrea Puhar is head of the Endogenous danger signals in infection and inflammation Group.
Research focus: Endogenous danger signals, in particular extracellular ATP, during intestinal infection and inflammation
Linda Sandblad, MIMS Team Leader
Linda Sandblad is head of Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy and a research team
Research focus: Spatial, intramolecular structure and interatctions of bacterial cytoskeleton protein networks
Björn O. Schröder
Björn O. Schröder is head of the Gut Microbiota and Intestinal Mucosal Barrier Function Group.
Research focus: Dietary and other factors influence the interaction between gut microbiota and the mucosal barrier (intestinal mucus and AMPs) and the relevance of this interaction in the context of diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic diseases
Barbara Sixt
Dr. Barbara Sixt is head of the Cell-autonomous Immunity Group.
Research focus: Protective potential of pathogen-suppressed cellular defense pathways, to identify the molecular determinants of host defense and pathogenic countermeasures, and to find means to disturb their balance to the benefit of the host
Anna Överby, MIMS Deputy Director
Anna Överby is head of the Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus Group.
Research focus: Tick-borne encephalitis virus from molecular virology and host pathogen interactions to pathogenicity and innate immunity by combining different in vivo and in vitro systems
Research at NCMM
Janna Saarela, NCMM Director
Professor Janna Saarela is head of the Human Immune Disorders Group.
Research focus: Understanding of biological pathways and pathogenic mechanisms behind rare and common immune diseases.
Charlotte Boccara
Dr Charlotte Boccara is head of the Systems Neuroscience and Sleep Group.
Research focus: Role of sleep in cognitive development, deciphering neural coding in the adult brain
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Camila Vicencio Esguerra
Dr Camila Esguerra is head of the Chemical Neuroscience Group.
Research focus: Fundamental mechanisms underlying brain function in health and disease
Irep Gözen
Dr Irep Gözen is head of the Bionanotechnology and Membrane Systems Group.
Research focus: Using soft biomaterials, such as lipid membranes, to mimic the behavior of living cells to gain a deeper understanding of certain biological processes, including migration (taxis), mechanical damage and repair, endoplasmic reticulum dynamics, and others
Emma Haapaniemi
Dr Emma Haapaniemi is head of the Precision Pediatrics and Gene Editing Group.
Research focus: Rare and undiagnosed immunological diseases that mainly present as autoimmunity, severe allergy, infection susceptibility, and early cancer
Marieke Kuijjer
Dr Marieke Kuijjer is head of the Computational Biology and Systems Medicine Group.
Research focus: Use of computational and systems biology to better understand gene regulation.
Anthony Mathelier
Dr Anthony Mathelier is head of the Computational Biology and Gene Regulation Group.
Research focus: Computational biology, with a focus on gene expression regulation and the mechanisms by which it can be disrupted in human diseases such as cancer.
Nikolina Sekulic
Dr Nikolina Sekulic is head of the Structural Biology and Chromatin Group.
Research focus: Molecular mechanisms that assure genomic stabliity during cell division.
Judith Staerk
Dr Judith Staerk is head of the Stem Cell Group.
Research focus: The group focuses on deciphering the molecular processes that govern human pluripotent stem cell renewal and differentiation, and physiological and malignant hematopoitic and neural development.
Sebastian Waszak
Dr Sebastian Waszak is head of the Computational Oncology Group.
Research focus: Large patient populations, multi-modal data integration, and computational methods to study rare cancers. One specific focus is the development of precision medicine strategies for pediatric brain cancer patients.
