Description
Saila Rinne is the Head of Unit “Artificial Intelligence in Health and Life Sciences” at the EU AI Office in the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission.
Her unit’s mission is to support EU competitiveness, excellence and leadership in AI for health and life sciences, with the aim of fostering better health outcomes of citizens and sustainability of health systems across the EU. Her team deals with EU policies and EU-wide infrastructures on genomic and medical imaging data, virtual human twins and Artificial Intelligence solutions, to support personalised medicine, disease prevention and prediction, diagnostics and care.
Ms Rinne has had a long career of over 25 years at the Commission. She has previously worked on data policy and innovation projects in DG CONNECT and as a translator and terminologist in DG Translation.
