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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Andrea Ganna & Anna-Leena Vuorinen

  2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Andrea Ganna

  3. Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Andrea Ganna

  4. Genomic Medicine Group, Center for Research in Molecular Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Angel Carracedo

  5. Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, IDIS, Galician Service of Health, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Angel Carracedo

  6. Centro de Invvestigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Investigación Carlos III (ISCIII), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Angel Carracedo

  7. Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Christian F. Christiansen

  8. Health Data Science Centre, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio & Luisa Zuccolo

  9. British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  10. British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  11. National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  12. Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  13. Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  14. Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Pearl A. Dykstra

  15. Environmental Health Division, Research Institute at Medical University of Plovdiv, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

    Angel M. Dzhambov

  16. Health and Quality of Life in a Green and Sustainable Environment, Strategic Research and Innovation Program for the Development of MU–Plovdiv, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

    Angel M. Dzhambov

  17. Digital Health Center, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Roland Eils

  18. Section for History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Sara Green

  19. Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, Health Data Lab, Bonn, Germany

    Katharina L. Schneider

  20. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Tibor V. Varga, Naja Hulvej Rod & Klaus Hoeyer

  21. Unit of Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Anna-Leena Vuorinen

  22. MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Luisa Zuccolo

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Ganna, A., Carracedo, A., Christiansen, C.F. et al. The European Health Data Space can be a boost for research beyond borders. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03246-6

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