Juulia Jylhävä

I am the group leader of the Systems Biology of Aging research group at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University. My research group studies biological aging  — how to measure it, what drives it, and how it’s linked to adverse outcomes, such as age-related diseases and mortality. We use genetic, multiomics and AI approaches and causal inference methods to unravel why some people age in good health while others become frail and dependent on assistance earlier in life. Another aim and ongoing project in our group is to develop an electronic frailty index for healthcare – a tool to measure whole-organism aging and identify vulnerable individuals at early stages.