ISMB Seminar - Claire Steves, King's College London
06 June 2025, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm

Title: TwinsUK: a study of health and ageing from cells to society
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Tabitha Owen – Structural and Molecular Biology02076792308
Location
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J Z Young Lecture TheatreUCL Anatomy BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6XA
We are delighted to present a special ISMB Seminar with our speaker, Claire Steves and their talk, TwinsUK: a study of health and ageing from cells to society.
Host: Franca Fraternali
Claire Steves is a Professor of Ageing and Health at King’s College London and Clinical Director of TwinsUK. She is also a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.
TwinsUK is the UK’s largest study of adult twins who have contributed their health data over up to 30 years. Claire Steves, together with twins involved in the studies – Yvonne Haines and Sandra Coles, will talk about how this collaboration between scientists and participants has contributed to understanding of how we can stay healthy as we age.
Claire is interested in how each one of us ages differently and uses population studies like TwinsUK to understand what underlies this variability. She works across health boundaries, interested in both physical and mental health and the intersections between them. She established that environmental factors are particularly important in understanding trajectories of ageing. This has led to focused work on the relationship between the microbiome and conditions of ageing, including cognitive ageing, frailty and multi-morbidity. Claire also leads a high profile Wellcome Longitudinal Population Study grant to expand our ability to contribute to health sciences, by using data linkage with health, educational and environmental records, and social and environmental scientists.
In 2020 she brought her clinical experience to the design of the Zoe Covid study app which reached over 4 million people, and since then has led research on the impact of COVID-19 infection itself and the pandemic overall on lived experience of the participants. She also is the longitudinal population study lead on the National Core Study of Health and Wellbeing which aims to understand the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic including how the pandemic has affected older populations.
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About the Speaker
Claire Steves
at King's College London
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