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Färkkilä Lab Welcomes Five New Researchers and Students for the Autumn Semester
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Färkkilä Lab Welcomes Five New Researchers and Students for the Autumn Semester

Five talented researchers and students join the Färkkilä Lab this September, expanding our multidisciplinary work across organotypic cultures, spatial immunology, machine learning pipelines, and clinical registries.

SUBSISTER Consortium Awarded Research Council of Finland Project Grant
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SUBSISTER Consortium Awarded Research Council of Finland Project Grant

A major Research Council of Finland grant will power multi-omics, single-cell, spatial, and functional profiling to find more effective treatments for ovarian cancer.

Candice Madiot joins the Färkkilä Lab as Postdoctoral Researcher
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Candice Madiot joins the Färkkilä Lab as Postdoctoral Researcher

Candice Madiot joins the Färkkilä Lab to develop immunocompetent organoid models for studying the tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer.

Färkkilä Lab Shares Spatial Biology and Precision Oncology Insights at the 1st European Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium (OC-INSIGHTS)
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Färkkilä Lab Shares Spatial Biology and Precision Oncology Insights at the 1st European Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium (OC-INSIGHTS)

At the 1st European Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium (OC-INSIGHTS) in Bergen, Norway, doctoral researcher Ziqi Kang was honored with a Best Poster Award, Ada Junquera presented a selected short talk, María Mercedes Hincapié Otero received a Best Poster Prize, and Prof. Anniina Färkkilä delivered an invited talk.

Understanding CIN2 Through Spatial Single-Cell Imaging: A Doctoral Researcher’s Perspective
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Understanding CIN2 Through Spatial Single-Cell Imaging: A Doctoral Researcher’s Perspective

Cervical cancer ranks as the fourth most prevalent cancer among women globally, causing 349,000 fatalities in 2022. The disease progresses through precancerous stages, typically following an HPV infection.

Single Cell and Spatial Omics Symposium 2026
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Single Cell and Spatial Omics Symposium 2026

On March 12, 2026, the Single Cell and Spatial Omics Symposium at Biomedicum Helsinki brought together leading international researchers to explore the frontiers of single-cell and spatial omics technologies.