Aarno Palotie

Professor Aarno Palotie, MD, PhD is the research director of the Human Genomics Programme at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLife. He is also a faculty member at the Center for Human Genome Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has a long track record in human disease genetics. He has held professorships and group leader positions at the University of Helsinki, UCLA and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He has also been the director of the Finnish Genome Center and the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Helsinki University Hospital. Aarno Palotie's research utilises the unique Finnish population and healthcare system to improve understanding of the genetic component underlying common diseases. He has chaired several large international research consortia, like the Sequencing Initiative Suomi, SISu, combining all Finnish sequences for a data resource and variant catalogue, the