PhD Positions, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Finland (2018)

As part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, FIMM in collaboration with HIIT is seeking outstanding candidates for positions of

Doctoral Students in Molecular Medicine, Bioinformatics and Data Science starting in August 2018

FIMM (www.fimm.fi) is an international research institute focusing on human genomics and personalized medicine at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science of the University of Helsinki. FIMM integrates molecular medicine research and technology centre and biobanking infrastructures under one roof promoting translational research in grand challenge projects, specifically, the impact of genome information from the Finnish population in personalized health and medicine, individualized cancer medicine, and digital molecular medicine. The areas of interest of the 18 research groups cover cancer, cardiovascular disease, immune disorders, and neurological and psychiatric diseases.

In the areas of bioinformatics and computational biomedicine, FIMM collaborates with Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT (www.hiit.fi), a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on basic and applied research on information technology. Modern molecular medicine requires state-of-the-art methodologies in data science, including analysis, visualization and modelling of large data sets; HIIT groups provide world-class excellence in these areas.

FIMM and HIIT work together with the University of Helsinki Doctoral School in Health Sciences (DSHealth) and doctoral programs (www.helsinki.fi/health/) and Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT, www.hict.fi) to provide excellent training and courses aimed at a doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki or Aalto University.

As part of an annual international joint call of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, we currently have five openings for doctoral students who show outstanding potential to become independent researchers and who will significantly benefit from the FIMM-EMBL/HIIT International PhD rotational training. Specifically, these positions are in the fields of molecular medicine (FIMM) and bioinformatics and computational biomedicine (FIMM-HIIT) and data science (HIIT).

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PhD Positions, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Finland (2018)