Ewan Birney: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- EMBL interim executive director
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“You walk into the doctor's surgery and the clinician is very used to using these tools, and they are able to say: 'Here's four major risks that are in your future and here's two things you could do to really change that.'”
Where Ewan Birney has been quoted
- New AI tool can predict a person’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say expertstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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