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Biography

Tuomas Kilpeläinen is an Associate Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (Denmark) and a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (USA). He completed his PhD at the University of Kuopio (Finland) and a 3-year postdoc at the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Scientist and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York). Tuomas leads an inter-disciplinary research group that studies the genomics of obesity and metabolic health. His goal is to advance our understanding of obesity-related cardiometabolic disease by uncovering the mechanisms of action of genetic risk variants, particularly in adipose tissue.

Activities

Employment (3)

Københavns Universitet: København K, DK

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University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen: Copenhagen, DK

2012-02-01 to present | Assistant professor (The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research)
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Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: New York, NY, US

2015-07-01 to 2018-06-30 | Adjunct assistant professor (Department of Preventive Medicine)
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Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Kuopio: Kuopio, FI

2005-02-01 to 2009-11-17 | PhD
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Tuomas Oskari Kilpeläinen

Peer review (180 reviews for 44 publications/grants)

Review activity for Acta diabetologica. (3)
Review activity for American journal of clinical nutrition. (2)
Review activity for Bioinformatics (1)
Review activity for BMC cardiovascular disorders (2)
Review activity for BMJ open. (1)
Review activity for Cancer epidemiology. (2)
Review activity for Cell metabolism (2)
Review activity for Circulation research : (3)
Review activity for Circulation. (5)
Review activity for Diabetes : (8)
Review activity for Diabetes care. (2)
Review activity for Diabetologia. (27)
Review activity for EBioMedicine. (2)
Review activity for eLife (2)
Review activity for European heart journal. (1)
Review activity for European journal of endocrinology. (2)
Review activity for European journal of human genetics (11)
Review activity for European review of aging and physical activity. (1)
Review activity for Gene. (2)
Review activity for Genes & nutrition. (1)
Review activity for Genome medicine. (2)
Review activity for Human molecular genetics. (7)
Review activity for International journal of obesity. (8)
Review activity for Journal of biomedical science (2)
Review activity for Journal of electrocardiology. (2)
Review activity for Journal of nutrition. (2)
Review activity for Medicine & science in sports & exercise. (1)
Review activity for Molecular nutrition & food research. (1)
Review activity for Nature (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (14)
Review activity for Nature metabolism. (2)
Review activity for Nature. (2)
Review activity for Obesity facts (1)
Review activity for Obesity research & clinical practice. (1)
Review activity for Obesity. (15)
Review activity for Pediatric obesity. (3)
Review activity for Physiological genomics. (16)
Review activity for PLOS genetics (2)
Review activity for PLoS medicine. (1)
Review activity for PloS one. (6)
Review activity for Scientific reports. (1)
Review activity for The journal of clinical endocrinology & metabolism. (8)
Review activity for The Lancet regional health. (1)
Review activity for The Lancet. (1)