| FINLAND - University of Helsinki and National Institute for Health and Welfare |
| Focus area: Genetics and Molecular basis of neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular diseases and cancer |
| contact |
| Huei-yi Shen, Project Coordinator, THL, Tukholmankatu 8, P.O. Box 212, 00251 Helsinki, FINLAND |
| Tel:+358-20-610 8334 |
| Fax:+358-20-610 8480 |
| Email: |
Leader: Professor Leena Peltonen (co-ordinator of NCoEDG) The Helsinki site consists of six subgroups:
The Biomedicum Helsinki has an exceptional infrastructure, including the Biochip Center for microarray studies, the animal facility for mice and rat (both barrier and open space), a Sequencing core, a large DNA extraction and storage facility, the Finnish Genome Center for genotyping and the high throughput somatic cell analysis platform. The Biomedicum Bioinformatics Core (BBU) provides biocomputing expertise as well as computing resources for researchers. |


