Contact information for the media

Professor Aarno Palotie from University of Helsinki (the Scientific Director of the study) is the main media contact person. Please contact Sari Kivikko for scheduling an interview: +358 40 567 0826

In addition, international media is welcome to contact Mark Daly from FIMM and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for further information and comments. Mark Daly: mark.daly@helsinki.fi, +358 50 5468790

FinnGen Communications Director Mari Kaunisto is happy to provide additional information about the study and to help in locating an expert in a specific area of the project. Journalists are asked to contact her to arrange interviews with the Scientific Director Aarno Palotie and other representatives of the research project.

Contact information:

e-mail: mari.kaunisto@helsinki.fi

tel: +358-50-317 5483

FinnGen in brief

FinnGen is a large public-private partnership aiming to collect and analyse genome and health data from 500,000 Finnish biobank participants. FinnGen aims on one hand to provide novel medically and therapeutically relevant insights but also construct a world-class resource that can be applied for future studies.

FinnGen is one of the very first personalized medicine projects at this scale and the public-private collaborative nature of the project is exceptional compared to many ongoing studies. FinnGen brings together Finnish universities, hospitals and hospital districts, THL, Blood Service, biobanks, FINBB and international pharmaceutical companies and hundreds of thousands of Finns. Because collaboration is the key to achieving breakthroughs in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, we welcome everyone on this journey into our shared heritage.