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Professor Sir Rory Collins
Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University
Rory Collins is an epidemiologist who studies how to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. He is BHF Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, and Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, at Oxford University.
He became Principal Investigator of UK Biobank in 2005. Involving 500,000 participants, it is the largest deeply-characterized long-term prospective study of disease globally, available for any type of health research. Over 30,000 researchers worldwide use it currently, generating over 2,000 papers in 2022 alone.
He was knighted for services to Science in 2011, elected to the Royal Society in 2015, and awarded the UK Medical Research Council’s 2020 Millennium Medal for his national and international research contributions.
