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Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute. She was recruited to the University of South Australia 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 also holds appointments as a Honorary Professor at the University College London, 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... Read more
About me
Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute. She was recruited to the University of South Australia 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 also holds appointments as a Honorary Professor at the University College London, 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 77, and her work has been cited over 39,000 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 implementing phenomewide analyses and 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 - 16/06/2023
The dark side of vitamin D supplementation, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2022
Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer, Tour de Cure Ltd, 01/07/2019 - 31/12/2022
Identifying pathways to dementia: a large scale genetic study, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
Nutritional factors and cognitive function: examining evidence for a causal association, The Judith Jane Mason and Harold Stannett Williams Memorial Foundation, 01/03/2015 - 31/08/2016
Tour de Cure (2019) Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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2019 |
Open access
27
28
147
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2019 |
Open access
233
229
2529
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2019 |
Open access
93
86
225
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2019 |
Open access
46
42
648
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2015 |
Open access
2679
2608
742
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2017 |
2
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2010 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
1
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
3
4
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2022 |
Open access
5
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2022 |
Open access
4
2
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
1
1
4
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2022 |
Open access
5
5
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2022 |
Open access
5
3
125
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2022 |
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2022 |
Open access
1
1
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2022 |
Open access
3
3
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
12
12
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
9
9
1016
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2022 |
Open access
3
2
1
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2022 |
9
7
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2022 |
Open access
7
4
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2022 |
Open access
14
12
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2021 |
6
7
28
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2021 |
Open access
7
7
18
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2021 |
7
8
723
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2021 |
1
1
4
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2021 |
Open access
4
3
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2021 |
19
17
219
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2021 |
Open access
6
6
31
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2021 |
Open access
7
8
82
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2021 |
Open access
6
6
1
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2021 |
17
16
121
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2021 |
Open access
7
7
527
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2021 |
Open access
5
2
399
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2021 |
36
42
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2020 |
2
2
1
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2020 |
Open access
1
1
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2020 |
Open access
9
9
110
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2020 |
Open access
5
5
5
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2020 |
Open access
49
44
76
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2020 |
Open access
30
33
152
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2020 |
Open access
17
17
178
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2020 |
Open access
18
18
40
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2020 |
Open access
6
5
1
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2020 |
Open access
40
36
35
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2020 |
Open access
4
5
42
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2020 |
Open access
6
5
31
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2019 |
Open access
50
43
84
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2019 |
Open access
34
33
51
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2019 |
12
10
10
|
2019 |
Open access
28
24
126
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2019 |
Open access
26
24
9
|
2019 |
Open access
27
28
147
|
2019 |
Open access
262
260
380
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2019 |
Open access
29
28
74
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2019 |
Open access
233
229
2529
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2019 |
35
35
6
|
2019 |
Open access
16
19
3
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2019 |
Open access
23
22
9
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2019 |
Open access
16
12
9
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2019 |
Open access
9
7
1
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2019 |
Open access
93
86
225
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2019 |
Open access
216
219
854
|
2019 |
Open access
46
42
648
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2019 |
14
15
1
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2018 |
Open access
103
104
44
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2018 |
Open access
47
46
13
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2018 |
Open access
44
46
3
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2018 |
Open access
214
213
63
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2018 |
Open access
24
25
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2018 |
Open access
10
13
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2018 |
Open access
23
23
31
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2018 |
Open access
956
936
2101
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2018 |
Open access
31
29
4
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2018 |
Open access
29
28
155
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2017 |
Open access
10
10
1
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2017 |
Open access
30
25
5
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2017 |
Open access
211
209
111
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2017 |
Open access
42
38
26
|
2017 |
Open access
25
25
2
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2017 |
Open access
246
234
155
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2017 |
Open access
26
25
5
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2017 |
Open access
70
63
167
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2016 |
Open access
31
148
651
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2016 |
Open access
5
4
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2016 |
Open access
206
194
76
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2016 |
Open access
276
278
344
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2016 |
3
9
1
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2016 |
26
27
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2016 |
Open access
8
9
1
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2016 |
Open access
45
46
117
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2016 |
Open access
17
15
2
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2016 |
Open access
610
31
28
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2016 |
Open access
75
55
18
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2016 |
Open access
550
518
745
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2016 |
Open access
696
682
1158
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2016 |
Open access
110
106
13
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2016 |
Open access
167
157
423
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2016 |
Open access
87
80
12
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2016 |
Open access
26
24
1
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2016 |
Open access
364
347
900
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2015 |
Open access
171
160
789
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2015 |
Open access
60
61
3
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2015 |
Open access
20
18
1
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2015 |
Open access
83
77
34
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2015 |
Open access
2679
2608
742
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2015 |
Open access
21
22
12
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2015 |
Open access
40
19
98
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2015 |
Open access
942
923
408
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2015 |
Open access
227
224
46
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2015 |
Open access
8
8
2
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2014 |
Open access
64
68
2
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2014 |
Open access
469
413
416
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2014 |
Open access
122
115
2
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2014 |
Open access
21
21
1
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2014 |
Open access
134
127
36
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2014 |
2
2
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2014 |
Open access
40
42
57
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2014 |
Open access
95
87
18
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2014 |
24
25
1
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2014 |
Open access
275
269
117
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2014 |
Open access
11
13
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2014 |
Open access
22
21
1
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2014 |
Open access
1210
1150
565
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2013 |
Open access
8
7
1
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2013 |
Open access
423
425
41
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2013 |
4
4
4
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2013 |
94
85
7
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2013 |
Open access
24
23
3
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2013 |
Open access
131
127
20
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2013 |
Open access
619
589
133
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2013 |
Open access
157
141
82
|
2013 |
Open access
231
225
37
|
2013 |
Open access
48
50
16
|
2013 |
44
38
11
|
2013 |
Open access
273
277
47
|
2013 |
Open access
29
29
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2013 |
Open access
6
6
|
2013 |
Open access
34
34
2
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2013 |
Open access
666
518
171
|
2013 |
Open access
1902
1563
135
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2013 |
Open access
32
26
1
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2012 |
Open access
85
81
8
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2012 |
Open access
72
71
2
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2012 |
Open access
277
259
49
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2012 |
Open access
110
104
60
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2012 |
Open access
90
104
34
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2012 |
68
68
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2012 |
Open access
85
91
23
|
2012 |
Open access
488
449
349
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2012 |
Open access
54
54
|
2012 |
20
20
3
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2011 |
75
71
|
2011 |
Open access
193
136
|
2011 |
Open access
245
398
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2011 |
Open access
223
206
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2011 |
Open access
6
5
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2011 |
Open access
17
16
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2011 |
31
27
|
2011 |
Open access
401
372
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2011 |
Open access
50
48
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2011 |
Open access
77
|
2011 |
29
28
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2011 |
26
24
|
2010 |
Open access
221
212
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2010 |
Open access
59
57
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2010 |
Open access
14
14
|
2010 |
Open access
188
181
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2010 |
Open access
47
44
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2010 |
Open access
52
47
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2010 |
Open access
86
81
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2010 |
66
61
|
2010 |
Open access
1263
1182
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2009 |
110
96
|
2009 |
Open access
115
104
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2009 |
Open access
200
186
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2008 |
Open access
311
294
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2008 |
726
302
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2008 |
257
242
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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 |
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 |
Dartmouth College | UNITED STATES |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
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 |
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 |
McGill University | CANADA |
McMaster University | CANADA |
Medical Research Council | UNITED KINGDOM |
Medical University of Graz | AUSTRIA |
Monash University | 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 |
Private Individual | AUSTRALIA |
Queen Mary University of London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queen's Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Research Centre for Prevention and Health | DENMARK |
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 Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
South Dakota State University | UNITED STATES |
Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
Statens Seruminstitut | DENMARK |
Tehran University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
Tulane University | UNITED STATES |
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
UCL Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
Umeå 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 Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Colorado | 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 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 Universiteit Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
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 |
Data-driven analysis to establish the role of adiposity and related metabolic abnormalities on cancer: a large-scale study using the UK Biobank | Current |
Dissecting the genetic and environmental factors affecting stunting | Current |
Improving genetic prediction of ovarian cancer risk | Current |
Integrative analyses of omics data for complex traits and diseases | Current |
Investigation of alcohol use and its consequences on human health | Current |
Lipids, statins and brain health: A large-scale study | Current |
Nutritional genomics and neurological disease (epilepsy) | Current |
Predicting brain health and dementia: a machine learning approach | Current |
Vitamin D, calcium and cardiovascular risk: a large scale study | Current |
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 |