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MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
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MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at @bristoluni.bsky.social uses genetics, population data & experimental interventions to look for causes of chronic disease.

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Many congratulations to IEU's Director, Professor George Davey Smith. This week he is being awarded the prestigious Medical Research Council Millennium Medal. @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @ukri.org www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
November: MRC Millennium Medal awarded to preeminent British health scientist from Bristol | News and features | University of Bristol
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November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Many congratulations to IEU's Director, Professor @mendelrandom.bsky.social. This week he is being awarded the prestigious Medical Research Council Millennium Medal. @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
November: MRC Millennium Medal awarded to preeminent British health scientist from Bristol | News and features | University of Bristol
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Huge congratulations to our director @mendelrandom.bsky.social on this prestigious medal, which MRC is awarding to him next week.
mendelrandom.bsky.social George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 17d
Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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IEU is again represented strongly in the latest Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher awards. Congratulations to the nine IEU researchers in the latest list (over a thousanth of all the awards). clarivate.com/highly-cited...
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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As the clocks changed last weekend, the Daily Mail published an article about the health impacts of these twice-yearly changes, including an interview with IEU's @meldelange.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...
Scientists call for the clock change to be DITCHED entirely
In the early hours of tomorrow morning the clocks will jump back an hour. But rather than celebrate having a lie-in, experts have warned it could have a slew of negative consequences.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs could reduce the risk of dementia, study finds - read about this important new research from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...
October: Cholesterol dementia study | News and features | University of Bristol
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October 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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How fat is distributed in people’s bodies could make a difference to their risk of certain cancers. Read more in our latest press release. www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
September: Adiposity and cancer | News and features | University of Bristol
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September 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Share: Complete your PhD in data science & epidemiology with real-world impact! Join us at @uob-ieu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social through the @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social. Fully funded project exploring biological mechanisms linking smoking & mental health.

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What are the biological mechanisms underlying the association between smoking, smoking cessation and mental health: a triangulation approach - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCPHS26Br Taylor G Project Type Dry lab Research Theme Population Health Science Project Summary Download Summary What are the biological mechanisms underlying the association between sm...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Share: Complete your PhD in data science & epidemiology with real-world impact! Join us at @uob-ieu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social through the @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social. Fully funded project exploring co-use of e-cigarettes, cannabis and tobacco

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September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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💡 New research paper! Can we find new ways to treat serious lung disease?

🫁 Higher levels of interleukin-6 in patients with pleural infection are linked to more serious disease 🤒
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Higher levels of interleukin-6 in patients with pleural infection are linked to more serious disease - Bristol Biomedical Research Centre
Patients with a pleural infection who have higher levels of interleukin-6 in their blood or pleural fluid are likely to be more unwell than patients with lower interleukin-6 levels, a new study shows....
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September 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Do you have strong research software engineering skills who wants to make a real-world impact? We are looking for a Senior Research Associate/Research Fellow in Genetic Epidemiology Research (Software Engineer). Apply by 14th September. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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September 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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🧁🧬 Great British Bake Off finalist @joshpsmalley.bsky.social joined @lpaternoster.bsky.social to turn her genetic research into delicious vanilla & passionfruit cupcakes - with a scientific twist.

🎥 Watch the full video here: youtu.be/xcc200LksM4?...

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Explaining science through baking with Bake Off finalist Josh Smalley and Dr Paternoster
YouTube video by Medical Research Foundation
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August 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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New Scientist cover story! Latest issue puts a spotlight on the work of Golam Khandaker & others in our Immunopsychiatry programme, as well as other groups, in uncovering links between inflammation & mental health. @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2491...
Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here's how to calm it
From depression to dementia, we are now realising the profound impacts of long-term inflammation on the brain. A better understanding of the underlying mechanisms is unlocking new treatments to protec...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We've just come back from a great weekend at the Green Man Festival. Weather was lovely, music was great and we had a great time talking with ~1500 people about what health research questions they would like answers to. Lots of reflections to share - once we've finished unpacking and sleeping!
Images shows pieces of white fabric with handwriting and pictures on it, hanging from string in a tree on a sunny day. This is research question bunting. The writing cannot be easily read in this image because the bunting was blowing in the wind but the bunting represents questions about health that people would like there to be research on. Popular themes included women's health, diet and mental health.
August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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If you are at the Green Man Festival at the weekend come and visit us in Einstein's Garden! We have a range of activities to demonstrate how to be an epidemiologist.

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2025: Green Man 2025 | MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit | University of Bristol
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August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Yesterday, I officially graduated with a PhD in Immunopsychiatry from the @uob-ieu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🎉 🎓

An incredibly special (and sunny!) day spent celebrating with friends and family. A huge thank you to my parents, siblings, supervisors, and all those supporting from afar ❤️
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July 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
uob-ieu.bsky.social
We have a great time on Saturday at #KeynshamMusicFestival talking about how to be an epidemiologist. Thank you to the festival for inviting us and for all the interesting conversations with the people who visited our stall.
A white gazebo under a tree, with two people in front. Hanging from the gazebo are three pictures with holes cut out for faces so people can take photos with them to 'picture yourself as an epidemiologist'. One picture shows a doctor weighing a baby, another shows a someone analysing health data on a laptop, while the third shows someone standing at a podium briefing policy makers. A man in a grey top and a white sunhat and a woman with a spotty dress and blonde pigtails standing in a white gazebo. The man is standing in front of a map of cholera cases in Victorian London. The woman is holding a photo stand in of a painting of someone behind a podium doing a Covid policy briefing. A man points to a map of cholera cases in Victorian London, mounted on a wooden board. This is a game called 'Pin the pump on the map', where visitors put a magnet where they think the contaminated pump is.
July 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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It was absolutely amazing being a part of @merthyrscience.bsky.social yesterday representing @uob-ieu.bsky.social. Had some fantastic discussions on mental health research. Thank you to all involved!!!
July 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The role of ‘good’ fats in addressing inflammation is more complex than first thought. Omega-3 fatty acids, popularly believed to reduce inflammation in the body, appear to increase certain inflammatory markers. www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
‘Good’ fats and inflammation: more complex than first thought
Omega-3 fatty acids, popularly believed to reduce inflammation in the body, appear to increase certain inflammatory markers, researchers have found.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Commentary by @mendelrandom.bsky.social and me on paper suggesting highly prevalent East Asian #ALDH2 null variant may magnify adverse effects of maternal alcohol use during pregnancy on child development.

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June 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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New research on genetics of eczema - found interaction between IL7R locus and dog exposure. Not sufficient evidence to suggest getting a dog, but important insight into how one particular mechanism might be influenced by the environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uob-ieu.bsky.social
Gene–Environment Interaction Affects Risk of Atopic Eczema: Population and In Vitro Studies
Atopic eczema is a complex trait resulting from multiple genetic and environmental factors. This study investigated evidence for interaction between 24 established eczema genetic risk variants and 18...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Looking forward to this!

If you're attending #PNIRS2025 be sure to come to our session (Symposia 4) on Wednesday morning and say hello 👋

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📢 Next up in our #PNIRS2025 symposia series announcement:

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June 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored.

Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Next Thursday we'll be part of a Pint of Science event in Bristol on cancer innovations. Come along and hear Naomi Cornish discussing "The Clot Thickens: Cancer's Sticky Accomplice" as well as learning about other interesting research. pintofscience.co.uk/event/cancer...
Cancer Innovations
Come and listen to the newest innovations in cancer treatments, from RNA splicing to combination therapy, and a peak to the future of personalised medicine…
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May 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, finds new research from IEU. Read more: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...
Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, study finds
Depression, schizophrenia and other mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people in their lifetime, but mechanisms underlying these conditions are poorly understood. New research led by researchers a...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM