FINNGEN

FinnGen is a partnership between Finnish partners from the academic and public sector and international industry partners. FinnGen is based on the idea of a cooperation model, where partners join forces to approach drug development using genetic discoveries. The Steering Committee and Scientific Committee oversee the FinnGen study. Each partner organisation has a representative in both committees... FinnGen is the largest medical research project in Finland, whose principal aim is to improve our understanding of the genetic background of diseases. By constructing a unique large-scale genomic and health resource, FinnGen strives to enable ambitious study designs - not only for basic genetic research, but also for drug discovery and the implementation of genome medicine in clinical practice... FinnGen is a research project in genomics and personalized medicine. It is large public-private partnership that has collected and analysed genome and health data from 500,000 Finnish biobank..

Primary location: Helsinki Finland