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Welcome to the web site of DDGS

The aim of the graduate school is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from basic research into diagnostic and therapeutic innovations in drug discovery and development.

The Drug Discovery Graduate School (DDGS) is a network-type graduate school that includes research groups from seven universities (University of Helsinki, University of Jyväskylä, University of Kuopio, University of Oulu, University of Tampere, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University) from VTT Biotechnology and from three drug discovery companies: Hormos Medical Ltd., Orion Pharma and Turku Imanet Oy (a subsidiary of GE HC). The students have graduated in medicine, health biosciences, biology, cell biology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy, genetics, biotechnology or engineering.

DDGS is a member of FinPharmaNet which is an "umbrella" cooperation between four graduate schools, which concentrate on drug research.

The graduate school has at present 44 students and 28 supervisors in 35 research groups. Twenty-eight students have graduated during years 1999-2009. See list here.

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On June 19th 2007 DDGS has opened its new web site to the public. The updated site is run by a content management system (e107) that should help us keeping the school web site updated, and allowed us to add features such as the Event calendar and the Download pages.

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