Dr Vanessa Tan
PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Applied Genetic Epidemiology in the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) programme based in the School of Social and Community Medicine. I am currently working on the design and undertaking of Recall by Genotype (RbG) studies under the supervision of Dr Nicholas Timpson. The RbG studies involve the recruitment of a subset of participants or their biosamples from an existing cohort for more detailed phenotypic analysis. The aim of my research is to understand biological mechanisms underlying cancer risk and progression by undertaking the RbG studies.
I did a cross-disciplinary Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Clinical Epidemiology. My Ph.D. research involved using a unique combination of cell biology and epidemiological approaches to better understand the regulation of fascin-1 in cancer and the translational potential of fascin-1, as well as its regulators, as potential cancer biomarkers.
Publications
Recent publications
21/12/2023Identifying metabolic features of colorectal cancer liability using Mendelian randomization
eLife
Does testosterone mediate the relationship between vitamin D and prostate cancer progression? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Cancer Causes and Control
Genetically proxied therapeutic inhibition of antihypertensive drug targets and risk of common cancers
PLoS Medicine
Identifying molecular mediators of the relationship between body mass index and endometrial cancer risk
BMC Medicine
The UK Biobank
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
Related people
Professor Nicholas Timpson
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor George Davey Smith
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Richard Martin
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) & Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Sarah Lewis
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Laura Corbin
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)