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Senior Researcher

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Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH, University of Potsdam

Henrike Heyne

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Henrike Heyne is a lecturer at HPI Potsdam (Germany). With her research team, she is working on large and small genomic and health datasets with the goal to better understand and alleviate disease. Previously, she was a postdoc at FIMM (Finland) and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (US) after briefly working in clinical genetics (University of Leipzig, Germany). Before that, she completed her doctoral thesis in evolutionary genetics (Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany). With an MD degree, she always thinks about the clinical implications of her research.