Professor Sudha Seshadri from UT Health San Sntonio US on aging, resilience, multimorbidity and dementia in the older old. UK Dementia Research Institute Imperial School of Public Health Joanna Tzoulaki Verena Zuber

Professor Neil Davies from UCL on 'The causes of Alzheimers disease, Mendelian randomisation: what do we know and what next?' UK Dementia Research Institute Joanna Tzoulaki Verena Zuber Jennifer Podesta Imperial School of Public Health

Dr Verena Zuber on single cell Menfelian randomisation on human brain disease and behaviour. UK Dementia Research Institute Jennifer Podesta Joanna Tzoulaki Imperial School of Public Health Verena Zuber

Dr James Yarmolinski, Advanced research fellow at Imperial college on "Genetically proxied drug target perturbation for dementia research. UK Dementia Research Institute Jennifer Podesta Imperial School of Public Health Joanna Tzoulaki Verena Zuber

Professor Arfan Ikram from Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL on 'What makes dementia research so difficult? a few methodological considerations'. Joanna Tzoulaki Jennifer Podesta Imperial School of Public Health @vere

Professor Ole Andreason from Oslo on "The multimodal prediction of Alzheimers disease opportunities in Nordic registry and biobank data".

Prof Abbas Dehghan closing out today's phenomenal UK Dementia Research Institute workshop imperial.ac.uk/a-z-research/d…. It's been a tour de force and a platform to launch new #collaborations for #Dementia research

Our new paper on phenome-wide association study of genetic variants in microRNAs is out today! Many thanks to my amazing supervisors Abbas Dehghan Marina Evangelou and wonderful collaborators Ville Karhunen ! humgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations Raha Pazoki and team on the new paper leveraging population data, experimental study, and bioinformatics to show evidence of involvement of WDPCP gene in alcohol liver disease. appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this work Abbas Dehghan nature.com/articles/s4159…

We have an exciting Senior Research Associate post using #genetics to⬆️#cancer early detection MRC IEU. Hybrid/remote working options. PhD or MSc w/ gen epi experience req'd. Closes 21 Dec Philip Haycock 🎗 @Karl_SmithByrne. Get in touch if interested! Pls retweet🙏shorturl.at/nrM79

Our paper exploring the effect of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and LDL-C on coronary heart disease (CHD) according to age group is now out! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Our systematic inflammatory marker & cancer MR analysis now out in eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science. Thx to daniela Ville Karhunen Niki Dimou Dipender Gill george davey smith Abbas Dehghan Kostas Tsilidis Richard Martin & many others ICEP Imperial School of Public Health & to Cancer Research UK for funding twtr.to/BdQtT

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…. Viral infections have been linked to an increased risk for dementia - might SARS-CoV-2 infection also confer an increased risk of dementia in segments of the population?

Registration is open for the 6th online Mendelian randomisation course, May 23-24, 2024: imperial.ac.uk/school-public-… James Yarmolinsky Ville Karhunen Verena Zuber Kostas Tsilidis Imperial School of Public Health

New paper "Alcohol consumption and the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality—a linear and nonlinear Mendelian randomization study" at IJE: academic.oup.com/ije/article/53… led by Nigussie Kassaw and Elina Hyppönen. Brief thread:

Looking for a postdoc in Molecular Epidemiology and Mendelian Randomisation? Here is an excellent opportunity! #Postdoc #MolecularEpidemiology #ResearchOpportunity

Can genomics improve prediction of #preeclampsia? New data shows maternal ethnicity is imperfect proxy for genetic ancestry, and ancestry is independently associated with pre-eclampsia: 10.1016/j.preghy.2024.101162 Abbas Dehghan Lucy Chappell Antonio de Marvao

Our paper on the genetic regulation and disease associations for circulating miRNAs is now out Genome Biology ! We conduct GWAS for 2,083 miRNAs in  2,178 participants in the Rotterdam Study and replicate our findings in two independent cohorts.  genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Join Us for an Online Course Advances in Dementia Research: Molecular Discovery, Neuroimaging & Prevention 📅5–7 Feb 2025 For PhD students, postdocs, & researchers in population & data sciences. Register: tinyurl.com/mrxy63t7 Please RT! Imperial School of Public Health Imperial Medicine UK Dementia Research Institute

Registration is now open for the 7th online Mendelian randomisation course, which will be held May 15-16, 2025. More information and registration here: imperial.ac.uk/school-public-… Retweets are appreciated. James Yarmolinsky Ville Karhunen Verena Zuber Kostas Tsilidis Imperial School of Public Health