Upgraded Life Festival 2015. Risto Renkonen, University of Helsinki

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Academic Medical Center Helsinki

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Academic Medical Center Helsinki

Academic Medical Center Helsinki

www.amch.helsinki.fi

Top-notch medical research, education and care meet daily on the AMCH campus.

AMCH is close cooperation between -the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki,-the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) -the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUS)

to benefit patients and the entire society.

Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUS)

- 1000 basic students- 120 M.D and 40 D.D.Sc completed annually- a Masters program in Translational Medicine since 2010

- 2000 students performing specialization - 200 specialization completed annually

- 700 Ph.D students - 120 PhD thesis completed annually

Education at Academic Medical Center Helsinki

Ranked: - within 10 best in Europe- within 50 best the World

Strategy:

- Focus areas in Research- Malignant diseases- Inflammatory diseases- Metabolic disease- Degenerative diseases

- Join together basic and physician scientists

- Towards translational research; from bench to bedside

- Active recruitment of top talent

- 2000 peer reviewed papers annually, daily updates:www.terkko.helsinki.fi/helsinkischolarchart/?articles

Research at Academic Medical Center Helsinki