The 4th EHTG meeting was organized in Barcelona, Spain on 17th-19th October 2019.

Professor Minna Nyström gave a presentation about the DiagMMR®, a novel carrier test to detect inherited MMR deficiency.

Prof., Minna Nyström

PhD Satu Mäki-Nevala and M.Sc Noora Porkka from Professor Päivi Peltomäki’s group presented their latest studies in short oral presentations and as poster presentations.

Satu Mäki-Nevala was awarded a poster award for presenting one of the three best posters in the meeting. Congratulations Satu!

PhD, Satu Mäki-Nevala

PhD, Satu Mäki-Nevala with her award winning poster

M.Sc, Noora Porkka

M.Sc, Noora Porkka

The 7th biennial International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary tumors Incorporated (InSIGHT) meeting was organized in Auckland, New Zealand on 20-23rd of March.

M.Sc. Noora Porkka

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish collaborative HNPCC reseach groups was organized in Haikko, Porvoo on 9th of June 2018.

Prof. Päivi Pelomäki gave an overview of the on-going research projects including an overview of the current status of the collaborative project initiated together with Prof. Jukka-Pekka Mecklin and Prof. Minna Nyström funded by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation in aim to recognize molecular mechanisms of colon cancer susceptibility. Noora Porkka, M.Sc and Satu Mäki-Nevala, PhD, presented projects related to epigenetic and genetic characterization of Lynch and Lynch-like syndrome cancer. Minttu Kansikas, PhD, and Marjaana Pussila, PhD, from Prof. Minna Nyströms lab presented on-going projects related to the development and validation of a non-invasive test to detect Lynch syndrome (http://www.lscancerdiag.com/) and assessment of the effects of MLH1 gene deficiency in normal colon mucosa on colon cancer chromosome stability.

M.Sc, Noora Porkka

PhD, Satu Mäki-Nevala

PhD, Minttu Kansikas

The annual AACR meeting was organized in Chicago, USA in April 14th-18th.

PhD. Satu Valo and PhD. Satu Mäki-Nevala

M.Sc Noora Porkka

PhD Satu Valo, M.Sc Noora Porkka and PhD Satu Mäki-Nevala

The 7th biennial International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary tumors Incorporated (InSIGHT) meeting was organized in Florence, Italy on 5-8th of July.

Both Prof. Minna Nyström’s and Prof. Päivi Peltomäki’s groups were represented in the meeting.

PhD, Marjaana Pussila (Prof. Nyström’s group)

M.Sc, Mariann Kasela (Prof. Nyström’s group)

M.Sc, Anni Niskakoski (Prof. Peltomäki’s group)

PhD, Satu Mäki-Nevala (Prof. Peltomäki’s group) (study based on PhD Satu Valo’s work)

M.Sc, Noora Porkka (Prof. Peltomäki’s group)

Alongside the research groups, LS CancerDiag participated in the biennial InSiGHT meeting held in Florence, Italy by sponsoring the event as well as presenting the most recent results from the DiagMMR test development.

LS CancerDiag at InSiGHT 2017

Minttu Kansikas, PhD

(Photos by Lynch syndrome Research Groups, Finland)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish collaborative HNPCC reseach groups was organized in Jyväskylä on 9-10th of March.

Prof. Päivi Pelomäki gave an overview of the on-going research projects including the collaborative project initiated together with Prof. Jukka-Pekka Mecklin and Prof. Minna Nyström funded by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation in aim to recognize molecular mechanisms of colon cancer susceptibility. Satu Valo, PhD, and Noora Porkka, M.Sc, presented projects related to epigenetic and genetic characterization of Lynch syndrome related cancer. Minttu Kansikas, PhD, and Mariann Kasela, M.Sc, from Prof. Minna Nyström’s research group presented on-going projects related to the development and validation of a non-invasive test to detect Lynch syndrome (http://www.lscancerdiag.com/) and assessment of the effects of PMS2 gene function on MMR repair efficiency.

Prof. Päivi Peltomäki

PhD, Satu Valo

M.Sc, Noora Porkka

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish collaborative HNPCC reseach groups took place at Hämeenkylän Kartano in Vantaa on 4th of March.

In her presentation, Prof. Minna Nyström introduced DiagMMR™ a new tool for Lynch syndrome carrier diagnosis (http://www.lscancerdiag.com/). Other members of Prof. Päivi Peltomäki’s and Prof. Minna Nyström’s research groups gave presentations regarding some of the recent projects related to the Western diet effects on colon cancer predisposition (MSc. Marjaana Pussila, MSc. Satu Valo and BSc. Pauliina Paloviita) and promoter specific alterations of APC in FAP (PhD Taina Nieminen).

MSc. Satu Valo

PhD. Taina Nieminen