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
Publications
Recent publications
01/06/2024Cigarette 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
Estimating the health impact of nicotine exposure by dissecting the effects of nicotine versus non-nicotine constituents of tobacco smoke
PLoS Genetics
Integrating multiple lines of evidence to assess the effects of maternal BMI on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes
BMC Medicine
Mammographic density mediates the protective effect of early-life body size on breast cancer risk
Nature Communications