Professor Sir Rory Collins
Colleges
Websites
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UK Biobank
Principal Investigator and Chief Execuitve
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British Heart Foundation
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
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Tokai University
Adjunctive Professor
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China Oxford Centre for International Health Research
Honorary Director
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Beijing Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Honorary Professor
Rory Collins
FRS, FMedSci
Head of Nuffield Department of Population Health and BHF Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Rory Collins studied Medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London University (1974-1980), and Statistics at George Washington University (1976-7) and at Oxford University (1982-3).
In 1985 he became co-director, with Professor Sir Richard Peto, of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU). In 1996, he was appointed Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Oxford, supported by the British Heart Foundation.
He became Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank prospective study of 500,000 people in September 2005. From July 2013, he became the Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health at Oxford University.
His work has been in the establishment of large-scale epidemiological studies of the causes, prevention and treatment of heart attacks, other vascular disease, and cancer. He was knighted in 2011 for his services to science.
Key publications
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Efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering treatment: prospective meta-analysis of data from 90,056 participants in 14 randomised trials of statins.
Journal article
Baigent C. et al, (2005), Lancet, 366, 1267 - 1278
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Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients.
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Antithrombotic Trialists' Collaboration None., (2002), BMJ, 324, 71 - 86
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MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin in 20,536 high-risk individuals: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
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Heart Protection Study Collaborative Group None., (2002), Lancet, 360, 7 - 22
Recent publications
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Body mass index and COVID-19 mortality: prospective study of 120,000 Mexican adults
Journal article
EMBERSON J. et al, (2022), International Journal of Epidemiology
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Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis.
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Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration None., (2021), Lancet, 398, 1053 - 1064
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The Contribution of UK Biobank to Cardiovascular Disease Research
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Caleyachetty R. and LACEY B., (2021), Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Age and blood pressure stratified effects of blood pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual-level meta-analysis of 358,707 randomised participants
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MCMANUS R. et al, (2021), The Lancet
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Association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults
Journal article
Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism