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 & Deputy Director, CEU
- 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, co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, and is a member of the UK Department of Health’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition.
Recent publications
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Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts.
Journal article
Scarborough P. et al, (2023), Nat Food
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Associations of intakes of total protein, protein from dairy sources, and dietary calcium with risks of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer: a prospective analysis in UK Biobank.
Journal article
Watling CZ. et al, (2023), Br J Cancer
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Genetic predisposition to metabolically unfavourable adiposity and prostate cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization analysis.
Journal article
Perez-Cornago A. et al, (2023), Cancer Med
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Data from Prospective Analysis Reveals Associations between Carbohydrate Intakes, Genetic Predictors of Short-Chain Fatty Acid Synthesis, and Colorectal Cancer Risk
Other
Watling CZ. et al, (2023)
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Data from Prospective Analysis Reveals Associations between Carbohydrate Intakes, Genetic Predictors of Short-Chain Fatty Acid Synthesis, and Colorectal Cancer Risk
Other
Watling CZ. et al, (2023)