Iona Millwood
DPhil
Senior Epidemiologist; University Research Lecturer
Iona Millwood completed an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Molecular Genetics at the University of Oxford. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London, on large-scale genetic epidemiological projects including the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts, and also spent several years as a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia, developing and conducting clinical trials for biomedical methods of HIV prevention in Australia and South-East Asia.
Iona joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) in 2009, to work on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB), including designing and conducting genomic and multi-omic assays to enhance and develop the CKB resources. Current research interests focus on using genetic and molecular epidemiology to understand the aetiology of cardio-metabolic and other chronic diseases, using genetic approaches to identify and evaluate potential drug targets, and investigating the role of infection in cancer risk, and the health effects of alcohol consumption. Iona co-leads a Genetic Epidemiology module for the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology.
Recent publications
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Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: conventional and genetic evidence in a prospective cohort study of 512,000 adults in China
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Millwood I. et al, (2023), The Lancet Public Health
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Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults.
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Yao P. et al, (2023), Eur J Epidemiol
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Genome-wide polygenic risk score, cardiometabolic risk factors, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Chinese population.
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Huang N. et al, (2023), Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis.
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Yao P. et al, (2023), Int J Epidemiol, 52, 1197 - 1208
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Genetic and healthy lifestyle factors in relation to the incidence and prognosis of severe liver disease in the Chinese population.
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Pang Y. et al, (2023), Chin Med J (Engl), 136, 1929 - 1936