The HiLIFE Fellows Program nurtures excellence and increases interactions in the area of life sciences. The HiLIFE Fellows program provides strategic competitive research support and integrates strengths across the life science campuses. HiLIFE Fellows represent outstanding life science area principal investigators at the University and are instrumental in developing HiLIFE in its early days.
Current Fellows have been selected from the 2017 Fellows call, from recipients of life science ERC grants starting in 2017 at the University of Helsinki, and from faculty recruits made from applicants to the 2016 HiLIFE Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor call.
HiLIFE assistant/associate professors
- Leonardo Almeida-Souza, Cell biology, assistant professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Juha Huiskonen, Structural biology, associate professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Pekka Katajisto, Aging biology, associate professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Helena Kilpinen-Barrett, Genome biology, assistant professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences.
- Ari-Pekka Mähönen, Plant molecular biology, associate professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Nelson Totah, Neurophysiology and pharmacology, assistant professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Pharmacy.
- Juha Saarikangas, Quantitative biology, assistant professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Marjo Saastamoinen, Evolutionary ecology, associate professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Rose Thorogood, Behavioural ecology, assistant professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Sara Wickström, Tissue architecture, associate professor, HiLIFE & Faculty of Medicine
HiLIFE Fellows
- A: Lauri Aaltonen, Laura Ahtiainen, Kari Alitalo, Jaan-Olle Andressoo
- B: Sarah Butcher
- C: Eero Castrén, Vincenzo Cerullo
- G: Leif Groop
- H: Sampsa Hautaniemi, Yrjö Helariutta, Akseli Hemminki, Ville Hietakangas, Teppo Hiltunen, Liisa Holm
- I: Elina Ikonen
- J: Jukka Jernvall, Eija Jokitalo
- K: Kai Kaila, Jaakko Kangasjärvi, Jaakko Kaprio, Kristiina Karhu, Mika Kivimäki, Juha Klefström, Mikael Knip, Jonna Kulmuni
- L: Anna-Liisa Laine, Pekka Lappalainen, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Sanna Lehtonen, Miia Lindström, Dongfei Liu, Hannes Lohi, Johan Lundin
- M: Juha Merilä, Marja Mikkola, Satu Mustjoki
- N: Mikko Niemi
- O: Timo Otonkoski, Otso Ovaskainen
- P: Päivi Peltomäki, Mari Pihlatie, Matti Pirinen, Craig Primmer
- R: Samuli Ripatti
- S: Pipsa Saharinen, Hélder Santos, Isaac Salazar-Ciudad, Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara
- T: Jussi Taipale, Jing Tang, Henna Tyynismaa
- VW: Jari Valkonen, Markku Varjosalo, Maria Vartiainen, Ilpo Vattulainen, Krister Wennerberg, Merja Voutilainen, Anna Vähärautio