Working groups

There are more than 40 people working for the project. Most of them are employed by University of Helsinki, Helsinki Biobank ( HUS) or THL Biobank.

Nine working groups of different expertise areas have been established under the research project. Each working group has establish teams that work on specific tasks.

Sample collection team

Anu Loukola/HUS

Sample logistics team

Päivi Laiho/THL

Health register team

Minna Brunfeldt/THL

Clinical team

Elisa Lahtela/UH

Trajectory team

Mary Pat Reeve/UH

Genotyping team

Kati Donner/UH

Sequencing informatics team

Priit Palta/UH

Analyses team

Mitja Kurki/UH

eScience team

Timo Sipilä/UH

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.