Congratulations Ziad Mallat for making it from bench to bedside!!! IVORY results released by Rouchelle Sriranjan Rothwell at #ESCCongress Low dose IL2 safely reduce arterial inflammation after ASC VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute CambridgeCardio Cambridge Department of Medicine British Heart Foundation

Huge congratulations to Dr. Eloi Schmauch on your PhD! You did a fantastic job answering Opponent Sikander Hayat questions—your knowledge is impressive. Now ready for a memorable evening party 🥳 UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine Suvi Linna-Kuosmanen Manolis Kellis

Another PhD defense coming up soon—keeping the streak alive! I am so looking forward to Ilakya Selvarajan's big day! 🎓🔥 #PhDStreak #OnARoll

Excited to welcome Helena Kilpinen ([email protected]) to Kuopio next week! PS. Coffee served before the seminar by #MetabolicsRC Also looking forward to the great scientific discussion as she serves as the opponent for Ilakya Selvarajan defense the following day (MS301) uef.fi/fi/tapahtuma/f…

Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Heidi Pulkkinen from GroupLaakkonen today! Huge congratulations! It was a pleasure to attend such an engaging defense, led by opponent Pipsa Saharinen. UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine

We had a wonderful Cardiovascular Research Community Symposium today! I was happy to give a talk about SMC plasticity in aortic aneurysms. If you study CVDs University of Eastern Finland and would like to join contact our RC coordinator. uef.fi/en/research-co… A.I. Virtanen Institute UEF ClinMed

Congratulations to our lab's newest PhD, Dr. Ilakya Selvarajan, for her great achievement! Your dedication is inspiring! A big thank you to the opponent Helena Kilpinen ([email protected]) for engaging discussion. Looking for the evening party 🥳 UEF Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine

The preliminary programme for the 31st annual meeting of SSAR is out. Check it out and remember abstract deadline January 3rd 2025!

Two MIRACLE meetings in one week! 🎉 Kick-off of MSCA-DN in Amsterdam and our EIC Consortium's Annual Meeting in Utrect. I couldn’t ask for better colleagues to share the science with! #MSCA #EIC

Big congrats to @eliasyh and Maykel López Rodríguez for the fellowship, great news for our A.I. Virtanen Institute!

Thank you to Iordanis Arzimanoglou for the insightful Nature Biotechnology paper on the European Innovation Council health biotech portfolio! Our #EIC Pathfinder #MIRACLEeic project is proud to be part of this legacy, pushing forward multiomics-based risk prediction of ASCVD rdcu.be/dWWnn

That's a wrap on #ASHG24 in snowy Denver! Great talks and science, and the best part—catching up with friends and colleagues (wish I could have caught everyone on photo). Until next time!

Great resource for research! Version 1 of the meta-analysis, combining GWAS data from MVP, FinnGen, and UKBB has been released and is available for exploration here: mvp-ukbb.finngen.fi

Vähän myöhässä, mutta vielä kerran: upea väitös ja suuri ilo olla mukana Ylä-Herttuala Lab yhteistyökumppanina kuuntelemassa ja juhlistamassa Sanna Kettunen! Lämpimät onnittelut vielä tohtorille ja kiitokset ikimuistoisista juhlista!

Cancer-type somatic #mutations in saccular cerebral aneurysms | ⁦⁦European Journal of Human Genetics⁩ Complex diseases like #aneurysms have chaotic pathogenesis—but is there true randomness? Thrilled to share our new findings! ⁦⁦Ylä-Herttuala Lab⁩ ⁦Kaikkonen Lab⁩ nature.com/articles/s4143…

Kiitos Jukka Mönkköselle arvokkaasta panoksesta Itä-Suomen yliopistolle ja lämpimät onnittelut uudelle rehtorille Tapio Määttä! Odotan innolla tulevaa yhteistyötä mm. A.I. Virtanen Institute ja kampuskehittämisen kautta!

Exciting EMBO Workshop Alert! Join us for the 3rd Enhancer Mechanics & Enhanceropathies workshop, bringing together experts on enhancer biology & disease! 📅 Abstract dl: March 17 📅 Registration dl: April 1 meetings.embo.org/event/25-enhan… #EnhancerBiology #EMBO #Chromatin

Getting ready for the SSAR meeting to kick off! For us Finns, jumping one month ahead into spring feels amazing — soaking up the sun already! #SSAR2025 #SpringVibes ssar Anna-Kaisa Ruotsalainen

I'm co-Guest Editing a special Collection in Genome Medicine with Clint Miller and we warmly invite you to submit your work! From #multiomics & #AI to #regenerative medicine - this Collection focuses on decoding #CardiometabolicDisease @https://biomedcentral.com/collections/5203