Rory Collins

Sir Rory Collins
Born
Rory Edwards Collins

(1955-01-03) 3 January 1955 (age 69)[2]
Hong Kong[2]
Alma mater
Known forUK Biobank[3][4][5]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Websitewww.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/rory-collins

Sir Rory Edwards Collins FMedSci FRS[1] (born 3 January 1955) is a British physician who is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit within the University of Oxford, the head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. His work has been in the establishment of large-scale epidemiological studies of the causes, prevention and treatment of heart attacks, other vascular disease, and cancer, while also being closely involved in developing approaches to the combination of results from related studies ("meta-analyses").[6][7][8] Since September 2005, he has been the Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank,[3][4][5] a prospective study of 500,000 British people aged 40–69 at recruitment.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "COLLINS, Sir Rory (Edwards)". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Sudlow, Cathie; Gallacher, John; Allen, Naomi; Beral, Valerie; Burton, Paul; Danesh, John; Downey, Paul; Elliott, Paul; Green, Jane; Landray, Martin; Liu, Bette; Matthews, Paul; Ong, Giok; Pell, Jill; Silman, Alan; Young, Alan; Sprosen, Tim; Peakman, Tim; Collins, Rory (2015). "UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age". PLOS Medicine. 12 (3): e1001779. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001779. ISSN 1549-1676. PMC 4380465. PMID 25826379.
  4. ^ a b Allen, N. E.; Sudlow, C.; Peakman, T.; Collins, R. (2014). "UK Biobank Data: Come and Get It". Science Translational Medicine. 6 (224): 224ed4. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3008601. ISSN 1946-6234. PMID 24553384. S2CID 206684216.
  5. ^ a b Collins, Rory (2012). "What makes UK Biobank special?". The Lancet. 379 (9822): 1173–1174. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60404-8. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 22463865. S2CID 205965558.
  6. ^ Rory Collins's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Collaboration, A. T. (2002). "Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients". BMJ. 324 (7329): 71–86. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7329.71. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 64503. PMID 11786451.
  8. ^ Heart Protection Study Collaborative Group (2002). "MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin in 20 536 high-risk individuals: a randomised placebocontrolled trial". The Lancet. 360 (9326): 7–22. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09327-3. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 12114036. S2CID 35836642.