Are you interested in pushing the limits of what population health "foundation model" could be used for? Would you like to study privacy and fairness of generative models that are trained on sensitive health data? Or combine this with your own ideas? Two weeks left to apply to this PhD position 👇

You know those really annoying but really niche tasks? Like ordering a long author list and correctly numbering each affiliation and linking them to correct author to produce the final "authors and affiliations" block in a paper. I never intent to do this manually again: github.com/hartonen/mak...

A new blog post 💡 Generative AI trained on 100M+ real health trajectories?! 🤖 open.substack.com/pub/tuomohar... I am experimenting with this "short review" format where I aim at highlighting just a couple of quick point from an interesting paper. Let me know how it works!

I am hiring! 🎓 We offer a fully funded PhD student position to work on exciting machine learning projects utilizing rich, multimodal real-life health data, based at @fimm-uh.bsky.social in Helsinki, Finland, the happiest country in the world 🇫🇮 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Feel free to DM me!

Are electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I started an experiment: a blog in substack! My idea is to mainly post short reviews about interesting papers at the interface of AI and health sciences, but also stuff related to other aspects of science life. The first post actually is of the latter category 👇 open.substack.com/pub/tuomohar...

We are looking for a Data Scientist to support our clinically oriented research teams in generating insights from decades of rich, longitudinal health data. If you are inspired by the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research at a global scale, apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences of @helsinki.fi invites applications for the position of 🟢 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / PROFESSOR OF HUMAN GENETICS AND GENOMICS 🟢 with a possibility of a secondary affiliation with FIMM. ➡️ jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Our warmest congratulations to all FIMM-affiliated researchers who have received funding from the winter call of the Research Council of Finland! 💐 Academy Projects: Olli Kallioniemi, @rafabolism.bsky.social & Esa Pitkänen Research Fellowship: Tuomo Hartonen Clinical Researcher: Pauli Pöyhönen

💍 The Gollum Effect: possessive behaviours, attempts to undermine others, and efforts to restrict access to data, resources or opportunities https://go.nature.com/4mxAJvG

Our team presentations at #eshg25 #eshg2025. looking forward!!

The abstract deadline for #ASHG25 is fast approaching! Submit your science by June 9! 🧬

Did you know that some genetic males have plasma proteomes similar to those of genetic females and vice versa? What are the consequences of this? Come discuss with me at our poster number P18.021.D on Monday 26.5. at 4pm-5pm at #ESHG2025

Who would have thought?

We are looking for a post-doc/research fellow working on non-bullshit, reality-centered AI. Meaning: unique nationwide EHR and -omics with the possibility to recontact people and prospectively test multimodal AI approaches. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @FIMM_UH @FinnGen_FI

It is time to try how travelling to conferences without flying works when you live in the "far north". The first leg is from Helsinki to Copenhagen, where I will be attending the Genomic Mechanisms of Disease conference. From there I will continue to Milan for #ESHG2025 . A thread follows 🧵 1/n

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last week we had a great INTERVENE project annual meeting in sunny Turin, hosted by our local colleagues 🌞 Now back to the office with new ideas!