Laboratory at the Wihuri Research Institute @wrihelsinki.bsky.social and University of Helsinki. We investigate mechanisms that regulate the lymphatic vasculature and its role in organ-specific physiology and disease processes.
Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology
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Thrilled to kick off our Centre of Excellence on Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs), funded by the Research Council of Finland, with the first meeting in Helsinki! Great to start this journey with Kari Vaahtomeri, Cecilia Sahlgren and Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social.
Registration open for Seeon Angioscience Conference - hope to see many of you there!
I am honoured to be elected as a Member of EMBO and look forward to contributing to its mission and community!
Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology
Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology
Makinen lab - Lymphatic Biology and Pathology
The Center is a wonderful collaboration with scientists extraordinaire @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social Kari Vaahtomeri and Cecilia Sahlgren.
We are all recruiting, so keep an eye on our website If you are looking for a postdoc position 😀
Spread the word: The European Center for Angioscience @uniheidelberg.bsky.social continues to grow: We have openings for 2 additional Junior Group Leader positions. Get in touch with us if you are ready to start your own lab. See also corresponding ad in @nature.com: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
📣 We are recruiting 2-3 early-stage group leaders! 📣
Lead your own research group at FIMM @helsinki.fi and help us build more bridges from discovery to medicine!
👉 Apply here by 10 Aug: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#GroupLeaderPosition #AcademicCareers #MolecularMedicine
Hellmut Augustin
🏅 MTZ®-MPI Award 2025 goes to
Vishal Mohanakrishnan @vishalmkrishnan.bsky.social
for discovering Type R capillaries that play a vital role in bone remodelling and maintenance throughout life.
The MTZ®foundation yearly honors young MPI scientists for outstanding research.
🔗 Full: s.gwdg.de/44DNyT
Calling all vascular biologists! Join us for cutting edge science at #Angioscience26 in gorgeous Seeon, Bavaria.
Awesome speakers, intimate setting, many talks from abstracts. Deadline June 15th to register!
vwfb.de/start/regist...
Guillaume Jacquemet
We have asked the new EMBO Members to tell us about themselves and what makes it so compelling to work in #science today. 🧪
In the eighth video of the series, EMBO Members tell us what part of their #research process they enjoy the most and why.
#LifeSciences
This beautiful work from the lab in Uppsala @taijamakinenlab.bs made it to the cover ! Happy to be part of it ! Congrats again to the first author Marle Kraft ! Stunning images
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
EMBO
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SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature.
🗓️ Sept 2026
🌍 Bavaria, Germany
Registration open! Join us!
vwfb.de/start/regist...
Ondine Cleaver
Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪
Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025
Hans schoofs
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I am delighted to introduce our new Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs) funded by the Research Council of Finland.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. One image analyst and one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!
Ondine Cleaver
EMBO
Guillaume Jacquemet
❤️Our July issue is out❤️Discover an Angiopoietin-TIE2-dependent circuit promoting venous malformations, complex disease modelling in cardiac organoids, regulation of cardiac homeostasis by methyonil tRNA synthetase, and more!
www.nature.com/natcardiovas...
Nature Cardiovascular Research
www.embo.org
The overarching aim of IMMENs, a Research Council of Finland funded Centre of Excellence, is to understand how local immune responses are regulated at the lymphatic endothelium-immune cell interface.
www.helsinki.fi
Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond
