News & Events

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27.02.2025 – Grateful for the continuing support to the Enhancer Biology lab from !

21.11.2024 – Grateful for the continuing support from The FInnish Cancer Foundation

16.03.2023 – Grateful for the continuing support to the Enhancer Biology lab from !

09.02.2023 – Nice collaboartion paper published in with Kere, Varjosalo and Otonkoski groups!

01.09.2022 – New start of Precision Cancer Epigenomics group as a group leader at the Oslo Science Park!

29.08.2022 – A toast from my lab members for the new beginning in Oslo. Thanks!

26.08.2022 – Cloudy day for a group summer retreat with kayaking followed by lunch @Pompier Espa!

13.05.2022 – Group presenting their work at the Science day gathering of the Research Programs Unit!

17.03.2022 – Super grateful for the grant to the Enhancer Biology laboraratory from !

01.03.2022 – Awesome news to be recruited as a group leader at , a Nordic EMBL partner institute at the , Norway!

21.02.2022 – Great start to the new year 2022! Our work on sequence determinants of human gene regulatory elements published and online now in ! And also check the and from the University of Helsinki

24.12.2021 – A short fun break and pre-christmas (pikkujoulu) dinner with group! Thanks to my team members for 2021!

24.11.2021 – Grateful for the research grant support from !

16.09.2021 – Farewell lunch for Morena. Good luck for your future!

13.09.2021 – Fruitful collaboration with Klefström lab published in (in press).

03.09.2021 – Always nice to take the group out for a small treat. Lunch @Skiffer and a session of Bowling.

04.08.2010 – Awesome work from Aaltonen lab published in on the origin of uterine leiomyomas. Glad to be a part of this journey.

01.07.2021 – Defined molecular approach for human cell transformation is published in . And also check the behind the paper story featured in and the .

25.06.2021 – Small gathering for Mid-summer eve, nice to have labmates for a relaxing barbeque.

03.05.2021 – Thank you Academy of Finland for three-years to Jihan Xia. Congrats Jihan!

19.03.2021 – Last massive project from the post-doctoral work in Taipale lab is finally available as preprint in .

15.03.2021 – , joins the research group as a bioinformatician/doctoral student. Welcome!

15.03.2021 – , from International Hellenic University, Greece joins as an Erasmus student. Welcome!

04.01.2021 – , from India Institute of Techonology, joins our group as a post-doctoral fellow. Welcome!

04.01.2021 – from the Masters program in Genetics and Biochemistry joins our group. Welcome!

18.12.2020 – Group lunch at Biang! for Ting's last week at work. Good luck and all the best Ting!

05.10.2020 – , joins the research group as a student. Welcome!

02.10.2020 – Dr. Biswajyoti Sahu as an official PhD opponent at , Kuopio.

30.09.2020 – Group lunch at Fafas! for Marco's last week at work. Good luck and all the best Marco!

16.09.2020 – , from University of Oulu, Finland joins the the Enhancer Biology laboraratory. Welcome!

21.08.2020 – Summer retreat with the lab at Korkee adventure park and some good food at Farang!

29.05.2020 – Big funding success and news from!

23.05.2020 – Define molecular approach for human cellular transformation available as a preprint in .

03/2020 – COVID-19 hits worlwide including Finland... Lab and research at the faculty goes into critical activities only....

21.02.2020 – Title of Docent in Molecular Genetics conferred by the Chancellor, University of Helsinki

01.02.2020 – Ting Wei, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow from Professor Marikki Laiho's lab joins our group. Welcome!

15.11.2019 – Pre-christmas dinner with whole group at Mei Lin!!!!

13.11.2019 – Two-year research grant to the Enhancer Biology laboraratory from !

01.11.2019 – from the TRANSMED program joins our group for his Master's thesis. Welcome!

09.07.2019 – First lab summer outing with the group, Asian fusion lunch at Hoku!!!

16.06.2019 – , from China, first post-doctoral fellow to join the Enhancer Biology laboraratory. Welcome!

11.06.2019 – In Brussels for the ERC-StG 2019 interview..... (panel LS2:Genomics, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics)

16.04.2019 – Marco Bardus, M.Eng., first student to join the Enhancer Biology laboraratory as bioinformatician. Welcome!

21.03.2019 – Invitation to the step 2 interview for European Research Council's - Strating grant (ERC-StG 2019)

20.03.2019 – Three-year research grant to the Enhancer Biology laboraratory from !

24.01.2019 – Prinicipal Investigator position in the of the Research Programs Unit at the Faculty of Medicine

19.11.2018 – First research grant to the Enhancer Biology laboraratory from !

12.10.2018 – to Dr. Biswajyoti Sahu from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki

11.09.2018 – Prinicipal Investigator at Faculty of Medicine, Medicum, University of Helsinki

01.09.2018 – Dr. Biswajyoti Sahu becomes an Academy of Finland Research Fellow to start his Enhancer Biology laboratory