Dr Neil Wright
Research groups
- Acute and chronic respiratory diseases in diverse populations: patterns, trends, and risk factors
- Burden, causes and consequence of carotid atherosclerosis in Chinese adults
- Health effects of long-term exposure to non-optimal ambient temperatures and variability
- Long-term ambient temperature variability and the associated health risks
Neil Wright
PhD, MSc
Senior Statistician
Neil Wright is a senior statistician working on the China Kadoorie Biobank. Neil leads the planning, coordination, and implementation of statistical analysis for a range of observation and genetic analyses in collaboration with other scientists. He also develops statistical code and resources for other researchers, contributes to teaching in the department, and supervises MSc and DPhil students.
Neil has an MMath in Mathematics, an MSc in Medical Statistics, and PhD in Medical Statistics. His PhD research was on the analysis of cluster randomised trials. Before coming to Oxford in 2016, he worked in the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit at Queen Mary University of London.
Recent publications
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Proteomic Analyses in Diverse Populations Improved Risk Prediction and Identified New Drug Targets for Type 2 Diabetes.
Journal article
Yao P. et al, (2024), Diabetes Care, 47, 1012 - 1019
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Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Risk of Stroke Types: A Prospective Cohort Study of 500 000 Chinese Adults.
Conference paper
Hamilton EM. et al, (2023), Stroke, 54, 3046 - 3053
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Chronic hepatitis B virus infection and risk of stroke types: a prospective cohort study of 500,000 Chinese adults
Journal article
CHEN Z. et al, (2023), Stroke
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Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults.
Journal article
Yao P. et al, (2023), Eur J Epidemiol, 38, 1089 - 1103
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Alcohol consumption and risks of more than 200 diseases in Chinese men.
Journal article
Im PK. et al, (2023), Nat Med