Dr Christiana Kartsonaki
Christiana Kartsonaki
DPhil
Associate Professor
Christiana Kartsonaki is an associate professor at the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford.
She is working on the epidemiology of cancer and other diseases, as well as on related statistical methods. Her interests include investigating the associations of risk factors and biomarkers (such as metabolomics and proteomics) with various cancers, mainly in the China Kadoorie Biobank, risk prediction, the design of case-subcohort and other studies, as well as other topics including cardiometabolic diseases, air pollution, COVID-19, and cystic fibrosis.
She has a degree in Mathematics, an MSc in Applied Statistics and a DPhil in Statistics. She has previously worked as a Biostatistician at the Department of Oncology of the University of Oxford and as a Research Associate at the Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care of the University of Cambridge.
Recent publications
Adiposity and risk of breast cancer in 280 000 Chinese women: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Kartsonaki C. et al, (2026), Int J Epidemiol, 55
Proteomic organ-specific signatures, ageing traits, disease risks and genetic architecture in an East Asian population.
Journal article
Bennett DA. et al, (2026), EBioMedicine, 130
A scalable high-throughput serolomics platform for profiling serum antibody responses in large-scale population-based cohorts.
Journal article
Kröller L. et al, (2026), Nat Protoc
Breastfeeding and risk of maternal type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study of 280 000 women in China.
Journal article
Kaminer J. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16
Associations Between PM2.5 Components and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Cohort Study of 0.5 Million Chinese Adults.
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Shi H. et al, (2026), J Am Coll Cardiol
