Research in the Nordic EMBL Partnership
Research at DANDRITE
Poul Henning Jensen
Professor Henning Jensen is a Core Group Leader and head of the Neurodegenerative Disease Laboratory Group.
Research focus: Molecular neurodegenerative studies.
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.
Anna Mathia Klawonn
Dr Anna Mathia Klawonn is Group Leader at DANDRITE, head of Immune-to-brain signalling group.
Research focus: Better treatments of affective disorders and neurodegenerative disease.
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.
Chao Sun
Dr Sun is head of the Logistic Vulnerabailities of Brain Synapses group.
Research focus: Protein machines that manage the molecular logistics of brain synapses using quantitative spatial proteomics approaches.
Thomas Dong Won Kim
Dr Kim is head of the Molecular Mechanisms on Cell State Transitions group.
Research focus: molecular mechanisms that regulate cell states in neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment utilizing multi-Omics approaches.
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.
Jelena Radulovic
Professor Radulovic is head of The Neurobiology of Stress-Related Memories group.
Research focus: the adaptive and maladaptive neurobiological mechanisms by which stressful experiences shape brain circuits and the representation of negative memories.
Magnus Kjærgaard
Magnus Kjærgaard
Dr Kjærgaard is Senior Group Leader and head of the Protein design in neuroscience Group at DANDRITE.
Research focus: Neurotransmitter receptors and dynamic protein interactions in memory.
Research at FIMM
Samuli Ripatti, FIMM 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.
Mark Daly
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
Tiinamaija Tuomi
Research focus: Botnia Study - Genetic and Metabolic Characterization of 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.
Anniina Färkkilä
Part of the Research Program in Sytems Oncology.
Research focus: Systems medicine of tumor microenvironment.
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
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.
Nina Mars
Dr Nina Mars is a FIMM Group Leader.
Research focus: Integration of genomics into clinical practice in common diseases.
Arafath (Rafa) K. Najumudeen
Dr Arafath Kaja Najumudeen is a FIMM Group Leader.
Research focus: Intestinal stemm cell metabolism in health and cancer.
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.
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.
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, FIMM Vice Director
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 & Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership
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.
Iker Valle Aramburu
Dr Aramburu is a MIMS Group Leader.
Research focus: The role that microproteins and disordered proteins play in innate immune processes by applying an interdisciplinary approach that combines diverse computational and wet-lab approaches.
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.
Chinmay Dwibedi
Dr Dwibedi is a MIMS Group Leader and DDLS Fellow.
Research focus: Employing functional alterations in gut bacteria strains to guide microbiome therapies.
Ryo Morimoto
Dr Morimoto is a MIMS Group Leader.
Research focus: Immune system evolution — cytidine deaminases in adaptive immunity and genome editing..
Björn Schröder
Dr Björn 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.
Richard Lundmark
Professor Richard Lundmark is MIMS Team Leader, Director of Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)
Research focus: Membrane sculpting machineries.
André Mateus
Dr André Mateus is MIMS Team Leader and head of the Protein function and interaction in the species of the human gut microbiome group.
Research focus: Understanding how proteins function in the species of the human gut microbiome.
Linda Sandblad
Professor Linda Sandblad MIMS Team Leader and head of Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy
Research focus: Spatial, intramolecular structure and interatctions of bacterial cytoskeleton protein networks.
Anna Överby Wernstedt, MIMS Deputy Director
Professor Anna Överby Wernstedt 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
Lars-Anders Carlson
Dr Lars-Anders Carlson is MIMS Investigator and head of the Structure and Mechanism of Viral Replication Complexes group.
Research focus: how viruses reshape the membranes of the cells they infect.
Laura Carroll
Dr Laura Carroll is MIMS Investigator and head of the (Meta)genomics Surveillance for Bacterial Pathogens group.
Research focus: We develop and utilize bioinformatic approaches to monitor and combat the spread of bacterial pathogens.
Anne-Marie Fors Connolly
Dr/MD Anne-Marie Fors Connolly is MIMS Clinical Research Fellow and head of the HFRS Research group.
Research focus: the cardiovascular complications following Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and the underlying mechanisms thereof.
Sara Gredmark Russ
Dr/MD Sara Gredmark Russ is MIMS Clinical Research Fellow and head of the Viruses and Their Interactions with the Immune System group.
Research focus: main focus on viruses and their interactions with the immune system.
Research at NCMBM
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: Develop gene editing -based therapies for inborn errors of immunity
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, NCMM Deputy Director
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.
Biswajyoti Sahu
Dr Biswajyoti Sahu is head of the Precision Targeting of Malfunctioning Gene Regulatory Elements group.
Research focus: The group focuses on developing innovative experimental methods for studying gene regulation, enhancer function and epigenome reprogramming, including cell fate conversion methods and functional genomics at single-cell and single-molecule resolution.
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.