Professor Gibran Hemani
Current positions
Professor in Statistical Genetics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Disentangling Early-Life Pathways to Breast Cancer: Investigating the Independent and Interactive Effects of Prepubertal Body Composition and Puberty Timing
Principal Investigator
Role
Manager
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2025 to 30/04/2027
8073 MRC IEU - Daniel Searby RTSG
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2024 to 31/01/2028
Making sense of the varying methylome and varying disease patterns
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical SchoolDates
04/10/2023
Lifecourse GWAS Consortium
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
Acute, chronic, and recurring, adverse health conditions that emerge in later life are often shaped by processes experienced throughout life. Gaining a better understanding of how exposures at different stages…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2023 to 31/10/2028
MR-Base: a database and analytical platform for Mendelian randomization
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
MR-base is a database and analytical platform for Mendelian randomization being developed by the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit and the CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme at the University of Bristol.Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/08/2016
Thesis supervisions
Complex trait architecture through the lens of epigenome-wide association studies
Supervisors
Multi-omics Mendelian randomization using different molecular traits to identify novel drug targets on complex diseases
Supervisors
Exploration of Biomarkers for the Susceptibility, Early Detection and Treatment Response of Brain Tumours using Epidemiological Techniques
Supervisors
Classifying mechanisms of pleiotropy to improve causal modelling
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
13/03/2026Gene-environment equivalence
PLOS Medicine
Leveraging polygenic risk scores to infer causal directions in genotype-by-environment interactions between complex traits
Human Genetics
Lifecourse genome-wide association study meta-analysis refines the critical life stages for adiposity’s influence on breast cancer risk
Science Advances
Effects of maternal and paternal smoking on offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood: a multi-method intergenerational Mendelian randomization study
BMC Medicine
Genetic inference of on-target and off-target side-effects of antipsychotic medications
PLOS Genetics
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