Dr. Waszak joined NCMM in March 2020 as head of the Computational Oncology group.Dr Waszak completed his postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg in the group of Jan Korbel. In this article, he describes his research into precision medicine for young people with cancer, the role that rare genetic disorders can play when it comes to cancer treatment, and what his hopes and plans are for his time at NCMM.

Paula Lindner defended her PhD on 9 June 2020. Her PhD was a joint project between NCMM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and DANDRITE (the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Aarhus), Aarhus University.

Researchers at MIMS, Umeå, and FIMM, Helsinki, have investigated the transcriptome of 32 diverse bacterial pathogens under 11 host related stress conditions. The research revealed that diverse bacterial pathogens have common responses to similar stresses to a certain extent but mostly employ their unique repertoire with intersections between different stress responses. The findings have been combined into a paper currently available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.