Harri Lähdesmäki

The Þrst position in the 5th Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), Transcription-Factor/DNA-Motif Recognition Challenge, 2010, presented in New York, NY, USA, November 16, 2010 The DREAM Project - Dream initiative, USA Transcription-Factor/DNA-Motif Recognition Challenge, 2010, presented in New York

Elias Tillandz prize 2013 for article Hawkins RD, Larjo A, Tripathi SK, Wagner U, Luu Y, Lönnberg T, Raghav SK, Lee LK, Lund R, Ren B, Lähdesmäki H, Lahesmaa R, "Global Chromatin State Analysis Reveals Lineage-Specifc Enhancers during the Initiation of Human T helper 1 and T helper 2 Cell Polarization," Immunity, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1271-1284, 2013

Elias Tillandz prize 2012 for article Närvä E, Rahkonen N, Emani MR, Lund R, Pursiheimo J-P, Nästi J, Autio R, Rasool O, Denessiouk K, Lähdesmäki H, Rao A, Lahesmaa R, "RNA binding protein L1TD1 interacts with LIN28 via RNA and is required for human embryonic stem cell self-renewal and cancer cell proliferation," Stem Cells, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 452-460, 2012.

IARIA Best Paper Award for our paper Dai, X., Lähdesmäki, H. and Yli-Harja, O., "sBGMM: a stratified Beta-Gaussian mixture model for clustering genes with multiple data sources," In International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies, BIOTECHNO 2008, Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5, 2008

Tampere Science Foundation award for the best doctoral thesis