People

The Kuijjer group is currently based in both Helsinki (Cancer Data Science) and Oslo (Computational Biology and Systems Medicine). Members of the Helsinki-based group are listed below.
Mariike Kuijjer

Principal investigator

PhD, Associate Professor in Cancer Data Science

Mariike heads the Cancer Data Science group at the University of Helsinki (since 2025). In addition, she is head of the Computational Biology and Systems Medicine at the Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine, University of Oslo (since 2018).

Sara Palomino Echeverría

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD

Sara is a NORPOD Postdoctoral Fellow on a collaborative project between at FIMM (Helsinki) and NCMBM (Oslo). Her project involves integration of multi-modal single-cell data to identify potentially novel regulatory cancer cell subpopulations in ovarian cancer. 

Olavi Goussev

PhD student

MSc

Olavi is an iCANDOC PhD student. His project involves developing a deep learning approach to predict enhancer-promoter interactions.

Panagiotis Sarantidis

iCANDOC PhD student

MSc

Panos is an iCANDOC PhD student. His project involves subtyping of patient-specific gene regulatory networks.