Introduction

The A. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences (AIVI) was founded in 1989. Main tasks of the Institute are biomedical research, profile being on molecular medicine and postgraduate training. All Research groups in AIVI belong to Biocenter Kuopio (BCK), which is one of the six Finnish biocenters. BCK is an active member in the Biocenter Finland consortium.

Strategy of A. I. Virtanen Institute for 2007-2015

A. I. Virtanen Institute is led by Director, Professor Ari Hinkkanen (Vice Director, Professor Olli Gröhn) and houses altogether 12 research groups organized into two departments:

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Animal Biotechnology Molecular Medicine Molecular Physiology Molecular Viroloy Novel Target Molecules Cardiovascular Signaling	Biomedical NMR Cell Biology Epilepsy Research Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Molecular Brain Research Molecular Signalling Neurobiology of Memory

AIVI

Introduction

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