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LOCATION:635 Charles E Young Drive South\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095
DESCRIPTION:UK Biobank: Scale\, Depth\, Duration...But\, Most Importantly\, Accessibility\nSir Rory Collins\, FMedSci\, FRS\nProfessor of Medicine &amp\; Epidemiology\nUniversity of Oxford\nPI &amp\; Chief Executive of the UK Biobank\n\nSir Rory Collins is Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit within the University of Oxford\, the head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford. His work has been in the establishment of large-scale epidemiological studies of the causes\, prevention and treatment of heart attacks\, other vascular disease\, and cancer\, while also being closely involved in developing approaches to the combination of results from related studies ("meta-analyses").\n\nSince September 2005\, he has been the Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank\, a prospective study of 500\,000 British people aged 40—69 at recruitment. He has created and led large studies that transformed statins from esoteric drugs for familial hypercholesterolemia into widely-used generics that prevent millions of heart attacks and ischemic strokes annually. Sir Collins was knighted in the 2011 for services to science. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2004) and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (2015).\n\nOverview: https://connect.uclahealth.org/dom/event/atherosclerosis-research-unit-special-seminar/tab/overview/\n
SUMMARY:Atherosclerosis Research Unit: Special Seminar
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