Dr. Taru Tukiainen is a senior researcher and a principal investigator at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki. She earned her D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in computational systems biology in 2012 and has extensive experience in human genomics, utilizing large-scale resources such as FinnGen in her research. Building on her landmark work on the human X chromosome inactivation (Nature, 2017), Taru established her own research group in 2018 focusing on the underpinnings of sex differences in health and disease. Her current research explores the genetic mechanisms and interactions that shape lifelong health, inluding sex-chromosomal effects, women’s health, and maternal-fetal interplay.

Genetic insights into the lifelong health of women and children