Cooperation

Thanks to its extensive collaborative networks, the Faculty of Medicine is able to offer its expertise to both the national and international community. Through corporate collaboration and other joint ventures, we can contribute to common goals on many fronts.
Corporate Collaboration

The pharmaceutical industry needs reliable partners to carry out extensive clinical studies in connection with the development of new drugs. Dozens of clinical trials are going on in the departments of the Helsinki University Central Hospital, with participation by the Faculty's researchers. Such commissioned research is coordinated by the .

The Faculty and the hospital also collaborate, together with companies from Finland and abroad, in research and development related to medical technology and biomaterials.

Endowed professorships have in recent years become an established practice for companies to support medical research. Such corporations as Alko Inc, Amgen Inc, Valio Ltd and the University Pharmacy have endowed fixed-term professorships on the Meilahti Campus.

MeVac is a vaccine research centre operated by the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, which conducts research commissioned by pharmaceutical companies as well as studies initiated by academic investigators. The unit is headed by Professor of Infectious Diseases .



 The is located at Biomedicum on the Meilahti medical campus.

is the first professor of practice appointed at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Medicine. The professorship is funded with an endowment by Alko Oy.

A Finnish-language interview of Simojoki is available .

Terkko Health Hub is a hub for health and life science entrepreneurship, located in the heart of Meilahti campus.

For the Faculty of Medicine students, Terkko provides hands-on experiences that foster creativity, problem-solving, entrepreneurial thinking and access to the wider startup ecosystem in the Metropolitan area.

For the University of Helsinki researchers, Terkko is a gateway to the ecosystem that helps take their innovations from bench to bedside. Through industry-focused workshops, networking sessions and pitching events, and with over 70 current startup members, Terkko enables researchers to showcase their work, gain valuable insights, and build relationships with key stakeholders.

In the basic and specialisation education of doctors and dentists, the Faculty of Medicine’s key partners include the , the hospitals in its area of responsibility as well as the health centres located in Helsinki, Vantaa and Espoo. The planning of education involves cooperation with other Finnish medical faculties.

The Faculty conducts research cooperation with other universities, research institutes and businesses.

Close cooperation partners include the and the , which are both units of the University of Helsinki’s .

The Faculty also conducts cooperation related to brain research with . These efforts are realised, for example, in the , a unit specialised in brain- and heart-related research on the Meilahti hospital premises, jointly operated by the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and HUS Helsinki University Hospital.

Diverse research and education cooperation is also conducted with the and the . , a centre of medical research and training, provides good preconditions for on-campus research cooperation. In addition to research groups from the University, Helsinki University Hospital, FIMM and the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, active on the premises are the Folkhälsan Research Center, the Minerva Foundation, the aeromedical and force health protection units of the Centre for Military Medicine as well as several pharmaceutical companies.
Innovation and collaboration at the University of Helsinki