Dr Rebecca Richmond
BA(Oxon.)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. My research aims to: 1) highlight the relative importance and inter-relationships of several health behaviours (including smoking, e-cigarette use, alcohol, sleep, physical activity) for prioritization in disease prevention strategies and 2) identify molecular pathways (e.g. epigenetic and metabolomic) which could serve as therapeutic targets for intervention. My major areas of focus are on the large-scale integration of molecular data in population-based and clinical health science as well as the development and application of causal inference methods, including Mendelian randomization. I have specific interests in cancer, women's health and lifecourse epidemiology.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Fellowship 1: Understanding Society Biomarker Data Project Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
Thesis supervisions
Investigating the interplay of reproductive, menstrual and adiposity factors in relation to breast cancer risk
Supervisors
Genetic and epigenetic data as a tool to augment understanding of oropharyngeal cancer
Supervisors
Improving how we conduct and report Mendelian randomisation studies
Supervisors
Causal implications of common infections and platelet function on cardiovascular disease
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
22/09/2024The effects of daylight saving time clock changes on accelerometer-measured sleep duration in the UK Biobank
The effects of daylight saving time clock changes on accelerometer-measured sleep duration in the UK Biobank
Bidirectional Mendelian randomization highlights causal relationships between circulating INHBC and multiple cardiometabolic diseases and traits
Diabetes
Cigarette Smoking and E-cigarette Use Induce Shared DNA Methylation Changes Linked to Carcinogenesis
Cancer Research
Comprehensive evaluation of smoking exposures and their interactions on DNA methylation
EBioMedicine