Research Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine 

Head of Department

Professor Alun Hughes

Research Programme Administrator

Miss Rebecca Lewis

The Research Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine comprises clinicians and scientists with expertise in various aspects of cardiometabolic disease and aging. It includes the MRC Unit of Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL (the home of the Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 Birth Cohort) and the Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) study), the Centre for Translational Genomics and the Multimorbidity Mechanisms and Therapeutics Collaborative (MMTRC). Activities in the department range from discovery science, through detailed cardiometabolic phenotyping, to policy-influencing research. Current activity in the department includes the investigation of genetic variation influencing risk of disease, causal mechanisms responsible for cardiometabolic disease and drug target validation using genetic approaches, characterization of cardiometabolic and other phenotypes in the population and their relationship to exposures over the life course, the identification of biological and social factors affecting lifelong health, ageing and chronic disease risk.