Professor Tim Key
Contact information
+44 (0)1865 289648
Fax +44 (0)1865 289610
Research groups
- An investigation into cancer risk factors and mechanisms: a DPhil in molecular epidemiology
- An investigation into cancer risk factors and mechanisms: a DPhil in molecular epidemiology
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU)
- Diet and risk of site-specific cancers in the Million Women Study: prospective research including 800,000 women
- Musculoskeletal health of vegetarians
- Prostate cancer epidemiology
- The molecular epidemiology of prostate cancer
Colleges
Tim Key
BVM&S, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
- MSc in Global Health Science module 9 lead: Nutritional Epidemiology
Tim Key has worked as a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Oxford since 1985. His main interests are the roles of diet and hormones in the aetiology of cancer, particularly cancers of the breast, prostate and colon, and the health status of vegetarians and vegans.
He currently works mostly on the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), as the principal investigator of the Oxford cohort of 60,000 subjects, including 30,000 people who don’t eat meat. He is also chairman of the EPIC prostate cancer group, coordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, and is a member of the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s joint Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition/ Committee on Toxicity working group on plant-based drinks.
Recent publications
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for overall, aggressive, and early onset prostate cancer using Mendelian Randomisation and tumour spatial transcriptomics.
Journal article
Desai TA. et al, (2024), EBioMedicine, 105
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Alcohol intake and endogenous sex hormones in women: Meta-analysis of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization.
Journal article
Tin Tin S. et al, (2024), Cancer
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15
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Assessing Performance of Contemporary Plant-Based Diets against the UK Dietary Guidelines: Findings from the Feeding the Future (FEED) Study
Journal article
Lawson I. et al, (2024), Nutrients, 16, 1336 - 1336
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Dietary Fiber Intake and Risk of Advanced and Aggressive Forms of Prostate Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of 15 Prospective Cohort Studies.
Journal article
Sidahmed E. et al, (2024), J Acad Nutr Diet