PFS researchers awarded €30,000 in grant funding

We’re pleased to announce that PFS Network has helped secure awarded €30,000 in grant funding from Astella for ongoing research at the University of Tampere.

The funding will allow a data scientist to utilise the FinnGen genetics database to provide potential genetic and clinically relevant information to expand our ongoing investigation into patient genetics led by Dr Alfonso Urbanucci and his team.

This team will be developing a query for the database which will try to identify men who have taken finasteride in a younger age group and possibly a genetic proxy for the disease or a healthy user who did not develop the disease.

Sample collection is ongoing for this study and we’re pleased that we’ve shipped almost 120 collection kits already. We hope to complete sample collection in the coming months and move onto analysis of genetic data.