Katja Kivinen, PhD

Katja is a geneticist-bioinformatician with >20 years' of experience in the academic life science sector and passion for translational research. Before joining DeepScan, she has studied the genetic basis of various medical conditions including Covid-19, malaria, preeclampsia, and various cancers. She has also managed cardiovascular research centres (University of Cambridge) and malaria (Wellcome Sanger Institute), and led life science research infrastructures (University of Helsinki).

She has co-founded several international research consortia, and has been a proactive member in numerous national and international organisations, most notably in MalariaGEN, EU-LIFE, Biocenter Finland, and 1+ Million Genomes Initiative. She has BSc and MSc in Genetics from the University of Helsinki, and a joint PhD in genetics and bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI.