The High Throughput Biomedicine Unit at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland: High Throughput Screening Meets Precision Medicine

Title:The High Throughput Biomedicine Unit at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland: High Throughput Screening Meets Precision Medicine

Volume: 17 Issue: 4

Author(s): Vilja Pietiainen, Jani Saarela, Carina von Schantz, Laura Turunen, Paivi Ostling and Krister Wennerberg

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Keywords: Chemical biology, high throughput screening, microarrays, miniaturization, personalized medicine, RNAi, translational research.

Abstract: The High Throughput Biomedicine (HTB) unit at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM was established in 2010 to serve as a national and international academic screening unit providing access to state of the art instrumentation for chemical and RNAi-based high throughput screening. The initial focus of the unit was multiwell plate based chemical screening and high content microarray-based siRNA screening. However, over the first four years of operation, the unit has moved to a more flexible service platform where both chemical and siRNA screening is performed at different scales primarily in multiwell plate-based assays with a wide range of readout possibilities with a focus on ultraminiaturization to allow for affordable screening for the academic users. In addition to high throughput screening, the equipment of the unit is also used to support miniaturized, multiplexed and high throughput applications for other types of research such as genomics, sequencing and biobanking operations. Importantly, with the translational research goals at FIMM, an increasing part of the operations at the HTB unit is being focused on high throughput systems biological platforms for functional profiling of patient cells in personalized and precision medicine projects.

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Pietiainen Vilja, Saarela Jani, Schantz von Carina, Turunen Laura, Ostling Paivi and Wennerberg Krister, The High Throughput Biomedicine Unit at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland: High Throughput Screening Meets Precision Medicine, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 2014; 17 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1386207317666140323195927