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Chief Technology Officer at Genomill
📍 Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

Juha-Pekka Pursiheimo is the Chief Technology Officer at Genomill, leveraging nearly 20 years of expertise in genomics, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and molecular diagnostics. An accomplished innovator and holder of a PhD from the University of Turku, he leads R&D strategy, driving the commercialization and scalability of the companys proprietary DNA sequencing workflows.

He is the Principal Inventor on multiple international patents for novel methods in nucleic acid quantification and sequencing, foundational to Genomills core technology.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
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Genomic Innovation
As a Principal Inventor on multiple patents, he has a proven track record of creating and commercializing novel genomic technologies for nucleic acid analysis.
NGS Technology
His career includes establishing advanced sequencing laboratories and working hands-on with a wide variety of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) instruments.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Chief Technology Officer
Genomill
1-2020 - 9-2025
Head of Laboratory & Innovations
Genomill
7-2018 - 1-2020
Laboratory Supervisor/Head of laboratory
Joint Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory of University of Turku and Turku University Central Hospital
6-2013 - 5-2018
Head of Clinical sequencing laboratory (Turku Clinical Sequencing Laboratory, TCSL)
University of Turku, Institute for Biomedicine
8-2010 - 10-2013
Head of NGS-laboratory and clinical assay development
Finnish Microarray and Sequencing Centre, FMSC
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Education
Adjunct professor
Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
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