Professor John Danesh
- BHF Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
- Head of Department of Public Health and Primary Care
- Faculty Member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Professor Danesh is the founder and director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU), a multi-disciplinary Unit of over 60 staff and students that aims to advance understanding and prevention of cardiovascular disease through population health research.
By 2018, he had published more than 250 papers, which had attracted >60,000 citations (h-index >105). His interests are reflected in the CEU’s main research themes, all of which are underpinned by research into quantitative methods:
1) Discovery genomics and cardiovascular genetics
2) Therapeutic target prioritisation
3) International vascular health
4) Screening and risk prediction
5) Systems genomics
6) Blood donor health and biology