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 Oxford 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 the University of Oxford (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 Oxford 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.