Recent Posts

• August 19, 2026

  Consortium funding

  We are happy to announce that the Kuijjer group has received Research Council of Finland consortium funding. The funding supports the SUBSISTER Consortium, which is formed by the groups Anniina Färkkilä, Anna Vähärautio, and Mariike Kuijjer.

• April 12, 2026

  Latest funding successes

  Since starting in Helsinki in 2025, the Kuijjer group has received funding from various funding sources, which are listed below. We are looking forward to starting these projects!

• March 28, 2026

  Celebrating Romana's successful PhD defense

  On Monday March 23, 2026, Romana successfully defended her PhD thesis "Omics data integration with gene regulatory networks in health and disease" at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo!

• February 14, 2026

  Three PhD defenses

  February is PhD thesis defense month, with three defenses from group members.

• February 13, 2026

  New group member

  We are very excited to announce that Oskari Niemi has joined Kuijjer group at UH as Bachelor thesis student. Oskari studies Bioinformation Technology at Aalto University, Finland. He will be staying with us for the spring semester of 2026, working with Olavi to investigate deep learning approaches to predict gene expression. Welcome Oskari!