FinnGen is the largest biomedical research project in Finland, combining genome data from over 500,000 participants with nationwide health registry data.
The project enables research across a wide range of diseases and supports close collaboration between clinicians, researchers, and data scientists.
FinnGen: an expedition into genomics and medicine | FinnGen
We warmly welcome researchers and collaborators from clinical medicine, biosciences, genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics and related fields who are interested in using registry-linked genomic data in their research.
Speakers Aarno Palotie and Mark Daly:
Mark Daly is the founding Chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU) at Massachusetts General Hospital and former Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki. Daly is considered a pioneer in the field of human genetics.
Aarno Palotie is the Scientific Director of FinnGen at FIMM. He has played a key role in the success of research in human genetics in the Nordic countries promoting extensive genome studies that utilize the unique Nordic health registers.
Together, Daly and Palotie launched the FinnGen project in 2017 and continue to use and promote this resource to advance our understanding of the genetic background of common diseases.
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The event is organized by FinnGen, Tampere University and Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa/RDI & Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere
Lisätietoja tapahtumasta: Biopankin johtaja Sanna Siltanen