The aim of our research is to uncover new links between long term conditions that could lead to improved interventions including drug treatments or other more focused treatments. These new links could include a better understanding of which cells in the body are most critical to the presence of two conditions in the same patient.
To achieve our aims, we have formed a partnership called the GEMINI collaborative. This team includes two people with multimorbidity, health care professionals including those in primary care and experts in statistics and genetics.
Our research team is made up of the following people:
Professor Timothy Frayling, Professor of Human Genetics, Principal Investigator
Professor Sallie Lamb Associate Dean for Research & Mireille Gillings Professor of Health Innovation
Professor Louise Allan, Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Dr Joao Delgado, Research Fellow
Dr Luke Pilling, Research Fellow in Genomic Epidemiology
Professor Jose Valderas, Professor of Health Services and Policy Research
Professor Jack Bowden, Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Dr David William Strain, Senior Clinical Lecturer (E&R) (HEFCE-NHS CSLA)
Professor Chris Fox, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Professor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Dr Jane Masoli, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer & Acting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine
Kate Boddy, Research Fellow
Bethany Voller, Graduate Research Assistant
Ninon Mounier, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Elsie Tata, Researcher
Mary Mancini
Professor Lee Shepstone, University Institute for Primary Health Care Research Foundation
Dr Albert Roso-Llorach, Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP Jordi Gol)
Dr Concepcio Violan Fors, Family Physician, PhD , Senior researcher, Research Support Unit (USR) Northern Metropolitan Primary Care, The Foundation University Institute for Primary Health Care Research Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol).Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP Jordi Gol)
Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
Dr Sara Khalid, Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Data Science and Health Informatics, UKRI NERC Fellow in Digital Environment, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, University of Oxford