Faculty of Medicine

The mission of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, is to conduct high-quality research and provide research-based undergraduate and postgraduate education in medicine and dentistry.

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News from the Faculty of Medicine and the field of medical science.

22.1.2019

Health news

GSK and Sanofi join FinnGen, a large scale genome study of the Finnish population

GSK and Sanofi have joined the FinnGen study, a large public private partnership aiming to collect and analyse genome and health data from 500...

21.1.2019

Health news

Overlapping genomic regions underlie canine fearfulness and human mental disorders

Professor Hannes Lohi’s group has identified two novel anxiety related genomic regions in German Shepherd dogs. The region associated with...

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15.1.2019

Health news

Studying the sex differences in human health and disease

The genomicist Taru Tukiainen explores the poorly understood sex differences in human health and disease to improve current risk prediction...

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Makers of the future

The Faculty of Medicine educates health care specialists, including physicians, dentists, psychologists and speech therapists as well as Master’s degree holders in translational medicine. In addition to carrying out teaching and research, the Faculty serves as an important authority in the field of health care and participates in ethics debates. The Faculty of Medicine is part of the Academic Medical Center Helsinki (AMCH).