Evropi Theodoratou Research Group

Cancer, molecular and genetic epidemiology; Evidence synthesis

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Evropi Theodoratou
Professor Evropi Theodoratou – Personal chair of Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health

Research in a Nutshell

  1. One line of research of the group is to improve colorectal cancer identification from population screening and diagnostic pathways for symptomatic populations. The ultimate target is to reduce colorectal cancer death rate through improving survival outcomes and the patient journeys for those with symptoms that might indicate colorectal cancer.
  2. Another active research area of the group is the application of instrumental variable methods to investigate the associations between biomarkers, exposures and disease.
  3. Prof Theodoratou co-leads an international consortium of applied evidence synthesis - a international network of population health researchers and information specialists (UNCOVER), which over the last four years have conducted more than 40 evidence reviews and which is committed to responding quickly to requests from policymakers for evidence reviews.

Contact

People

NameRole
Professor Evropi TheodoratouGroup leader
Dr Ines Mesa-EguiagarayStatistical geneticist
Lijuan WangPhD student
Lili YuPhD student
Samuel SjostromPhD student
Jennie HuynhPhD student
Xuan ZhouPhD student

Key Publications

Collaborations

  • Professor Harry Campbell, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Will Cawthorn, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Gwenetta Curry, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Farhat Din, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Marshall Dozier, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Malcolm Dunlop, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Susan Farrington, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Caroline Jackson, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Xue Li, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
  • Professor Julian Little, University of Ottawa
  • Dr Ruth McQuillan, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Mark Miller, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Jackie Price, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Jack Satsangi, University of Oxford
  • Dr Athina Spiliopoulou, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Maria Timofeeva, University of Southern Denmark 
  • Dr Kostas Tsilidis, Imperial College London
  • Professor Ioanna Tzoulaki, Imperial College London
  • Professor Lina Zgaga, Trinity College Dublin

Partners and Funders

  • Cancer Research UK
  • NIHR

Scientific Themes

cancer, genetic and molecular epidemiology, applied evidence synthesis, COVID-19, long COVID