Baiba Vilne, PhD, is the Principal Investigator of the Bioinformatics Lab at the Riga Stradiņš University. She has has more than 10 years of experience in personalized medicine-oriented bioinformatics and systems-level investigations. B. Vilne is focusing on integrative analyses (including the use of machine learning algorithms) linking multiple types of data, including genetic variation data, transcriptome and microbiome data with rich clinical and life-style/environment data, identifying causality and making predictions of the possible disease outcomes and working towards tailored therapeutic solutions, mainly in the context of coronary artery disease.