Jeffrey Barrett develops ways to detect disease earlier and more precisely palmroos@helsinki.fi Fri, 18/09/2026 - 11:03 Computational predictive medicine aims to develop ways to detect diseases as early as possible, so that patients can receive personalised treatment while their symptoms are still mild. Jeffrey Barrett , the new Professor of Computational Predictive Medicine at the University of Helsinki and ELLIS Institute Finland, has a career spanning genomics, public health and industry. He uses AI methods and large-scale health data to identify practical and clinically relevant biomarkers