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Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia. She was recruited to the UniSA as the Professor in Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology in 2013, following 12 years at the University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK).
She holds NHMRC Leadership Investigator Award and appointments as a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and as an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Hyppönen has an interdisciplinary academic background, with academic qualifications in epidemiology, medical statistics, nutrition and... Read more
About me
Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia. She was recruited to the UniSA as the Professor in Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology in 2013, following 12 years at the University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK).
She holds NHMRC Leadership Investigator Award and appointments as a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and as an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Hyppönen has an interdisciplinary academic background, with academic qualifications in epidemiology, medical statistics, nutrition and public health.
Professor Hyppönen has a H-factor of 84, and her work has been cited over 45,000 times. She has authored more than 200 high-profile refereed publications and several book chapters. She leads the Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology group which has a focus on using genetic tools to inform on dietary and lifestyle guidelines for optimal health. She has a long-term research interest in life-course and intergenerational epidemiology, and an extensive track record in gene and risk factor discovery. Her current interests are related to methods of causal analyses, machine learning, and implementing systems epidemiology approaches to establish effective strategies for disease prediction and prevention.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Tampere
Master of Science (Health Sciences) University of Kuopio, Finland
Master of Science (Medical Statistics) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Predicting and Preventing Ovarian Cancer: a machine learning approach, MRFF- 2020 PHCRI - Primary Health Care Research, 01/06/2021 - 31/08/2025
Whole-genome multivariate reaction norm model for complex traits, ARC - Discovery Projects, 17/06/2019 - 16/06/2024
Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer, Tour de Cure Ltd, 01/07/2019 - 31/12/2022
The dark side of vitamin D supplementation, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2022
Identifying pathways to dementia: a large scale genetic study, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
Tour de Cure (2019) Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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4
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11
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4
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28
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100
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34
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41
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31
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48
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12
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21
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8
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145
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460
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72
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2538
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55
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3
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28
27
3
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37
34
10
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20
10
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2
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224
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839
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713
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5
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47
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3157
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579
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1530
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Aarhus University | DENMARK |
Amtssygehuset i Gentofte | DENMARK |
Ashwell Associates | UNITED KINGDOM |
Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry | UNITED KINGDOM |
BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre | UNITED KINGDOM |
Birmingham Children's Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals | DENMARK |
Bispebjerg Hospital | DENMARK |
Blizard Institute | UNITED KINGDOM |
Boston Children’s Hospital | UNITED STATES |
Boston Children's Hospital | UNITED STATES |
Boston University | UNITED STATES |
British Nutrition Foundation | UNITED KINGDOM |
Brunel University London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Campden BRI | UNITED KINGDOM |
Cancer Voices | AUSTRALIA |
Catholic University of Leuven | BELGIUM |
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics | UNITED KINGDOM |
Childrens Hospital of Phiadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Churchill Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Copenhagen University Hospital | DENMARK |
Creighton Endocrinology | UNITED STATES |
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
Dartmouth College | UNITED STATES |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
deCODE genetics | ICELAND |
DSM Biotechnology Center | NETHERLANDS |
DSM Nutritional Products | UNITED STATES |
Erasmus MC | NETHERLANDS |
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Erasmus University Medical Centre | NETHERLANDS |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA |
Foundation for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases | HUNGARY |
Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium | UNITED STATES |
Free University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Fudan University | CHINA |
Gerash University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
German Research Center for Environmental Health | GERMANY |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD | NETHERLANDS |
Harborview Medical Center, United States | AUSTRALIA |
Harvard School of Public Health | UNITED STATES |
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health | UNITED STATES |
Harvard University | UNITED STATES |
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | GERMANY |
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | UNITED KINGDOM |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | UNITED STATES |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Institut for Sygdomsforebyggelse | DENMARK |
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland | FINLAND |
Institute of Child Health | INDIA |
Institute of Child Health London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Institute of Health Sciences | BRAZIL |
Institute of Metabolic Science | UNITED KINGDOM |
iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research | DENMARK |
IRCCS Foundation | ITALY |
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
Islamic Azad University | IRAN |
Johns Hopkins University | UNITED STATES |
Karolinska Institute | SWEDEN |
Karolinska Institutet Innovations (Sweden) | SWEDEN |
King's College London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Kings College, VIC | AUSTRALIA |
Kuopio University Hospital | FINLAND |
Leiden University | NETHERLANDS |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Loughborough University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Massachusetts General Hospital | UNITED STATES |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | NETHERLANDS |
McGill University | CANADA |
McMaster University | CANADA |
Medical Research Council | UNITED KINGDOM |
Medical University of Graz | AUSTRIA |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
MRC Biostatistics Unit | UNITED KINGDOM |
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute | AUSTRALIA |
National Institute for Health and Welfare | FINLAND |
National Institutes of Health | UNITED STATES |
New York University | UNITED STATES |
Newcastle University, United Kingdom | UNITED KINGDOM |
Northwestern University | UNITED STATES |
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | UNITED STATES |
Norwegian Institute of Public Health | NORWAY |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NORWAY |
Oulu University Hospital | FINLAND |
Oulun Yliopisto | FINLAND |
Oxford University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Peking University | CHINA |
Peking University Health Science Centre | CHINA |
Peninsula Medical School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Pennsylvania State University | UNITED STATES |
Poznan University of Medical Sciences | POLAND |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queen Mary School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queen Mary University of London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queen's Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Research Centre for Prevention and Health | DENMARK |
Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children | AUSTRALIA |
Royal Liverpool University Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Royal London Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Ruhr University Bochum | GERMANY |
Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset | SWEDEN |
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Semmelweis University | HUNGARY |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | CHINA |
Shiraz University | IRAN |
South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
South Dakota State University | UNITED STATES |
Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
State Serum Institute (Denmark) | DENMARK |
Statens Seruminstitut | DENMARK |
Tampere University | FINLAND |
Tehran University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Tulane University | UNITED STATES |
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
UCL Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
Umea University | SWEDEN |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra | SPAIN |
University College Cork | IRELAND |
University College Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
University College London | UNITED KINGDOM |
University College London Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
University Hospital Frankfurt | GERMANY |
University Hospital of Zurich | SWITZERLAND |
University Medical Center, Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
University of Aberdeen | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Bergen | NORWAY |
University of Birmingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Bologna | ITALY |
University of Brighton | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Bristol | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of California System | UNITED STATES |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Colorado Denver | UNITED STATES |
University of Copenhagen | DENMARK |
University of Duisburg-Essen | GERMANY |
University of East Anglia | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Eastern Finland | FINLAND |
University of Edinburgh | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Exeter | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Glasgow | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Gothenburg | SWEDEN |
University of Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
University of Helsinki | FINLAND |
University of Iceland | ICELAND |
University of Ioannina | GREECE |
University of Lausanne | SWITZERLAND |
University of Liverpool | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Manchester | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Michigan | UNITED STATES |
University of Milan | ITALY |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | UNITED STATES |
University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | UNITED STATES |
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | UNITED STATES |
University of Oulu | FINLAND |
University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Pennsylvania | UNITED STATES |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Reading | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Regensburg | GERMANY |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Southern California | UNITED STATES |
University of Southern Denmark | DENMARK |
University of Surrey | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tampere | FINLAND |
University of Tartu | ESTONIA |
University of Texas | UNITED STATES |
University of Toronto | CANADA |
University of Tromsø | NORWAY |
University of Turku | FINLAND |
University of Wageningen | NETHERLANDS |
University of Warwick | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Washington | UNITED STATES |
University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Westminster | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Zurich | SWITZERLAND |
Uppsala University | SWEDEN |
Versys Clinics, Human Reproduction Institute | HUNGARY |
Vrije University | NETHERLANDS |
VU University Medical Center | NETHERLANDS |
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics | UNITED KINGDOM |
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | UNITED KINGDOM |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
Yasuj University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Adjunct Professor in EpidemiologyUniversity of Tampere, Finland |
2017 |
Honorary ProfessorUniversity College London |
2017 |
Principal Research FellowSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) |
2017 |
Project Grant: The dark side of vitamin D supplementationNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2017 |
Project GrantNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Application of statistical genomic methods to tackle heterogeneity in psychiatric diseases | Current |
Dissecting the genetic and environmental factors affecting stunting | Current |
Exploring the Genetic Association between Cardiometabolic Abnormalities in Clozapine in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia | Current |
Improving genetic prediction of ovarian cancer risk | Current |
Integrative analyses of omics data for complex traits and diseases | Current |
Investigating the shared genetic architecture of the five factor model personality traits and their relationship to psychopathology | Current |
Investigation of alcohol use and its consequences on human health | Current |
Nutritional genomics and neurological disease (epilepsy) | Current |
Predicting brain health and dementia: a machine learning approach | Current |
Unraveling the link between blood proteins biomarkers and the risk of depression: a large-scale data-driven study | Current |
Vitamin D and degenerative health: a large-scale study exploring deficiency, muscle traits, mortality, and fall risk using data sourced from the UK Biobank. | Current |
Data-driven analysis to establish the role of adiposity and related metabolic abnormalities on cancer: a large-scale study using the UK Biobank | Completed |
Exploring the effects of serum lipids, cholesterol lowering medications and coffee on health: observational and genetic studies | Completed |
Machine learning for predictive modelling and risk factor discovery in health and wealth | Completed |
Pain and depression: exploring gene-environment interactions and the role of stress | Completed |
Physical activity, APOE genotype and cognitive function: exploring gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank | Completed |
Relationship between obesity and depression: evidence from observational and genetic studies | Completed |