About me
I am a project manager and a national withdrawal coordinator for Biobank Sweden. In my role as a coordinator, I help researchers to navigate the biobanking system of liquid sample withdrawals, am a single point of contact for researchers and the receiving laboratory, and coordinate the withdrawal process between biobanks. In addition, I lead a project group that maintains and develops the national withdrawal process. Our goal is to identify solutions to make it more time and resource efficient for both researchers and biobanks alike.
Research description
Publications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Leppä+V
Education
2013 - 2017, Postdoctoral scholar at Daniel H Geschwind lab, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, USA. I worked on projects in genetics of autism in multiplex families, and underrpresented populations.
2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland. My thesis was on the genetics of multiple sclerosis (MS) at the Janna Saarela and Leena Peltonen lab at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM and National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
2008, MSc (Genetics), Faculty of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki