Professor Tim Key
Contact information
+44 (0)1865 289648
Fax +44 (0)1865 289610
Research groups
- Breast Cancer
- Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diet and nutrition: health of vegetarians and vegans
- Dietary Protein and Stroke Consortium
- Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer
- Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer
- EPIC
- EPIC-Prostate
- Feeding the future study (FEED)
- Health and Lifestyle
- Prostate Cancer
- Shift work and disease
Colleges
Tim Key
BVM&S, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology & Deputy Director, CEU
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
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 also co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group.
Recent publications
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Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: A cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies
Journal article
Dunneram Y. et al, (2024), medrxive
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Dietary index based on the Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system and risk of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Journal article
Meyer A. et al, (2023), Aliment Pharmacol Ther
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Circulating NMR Metabolites in White and British Indian Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians in the UK Biobank
Conference paper
Tong TYN. et al, (2023), The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023
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Plasma Proteomic Profiles of White British and British Indian Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians in the UK Biobank
Conference paper
Tong TYN. et al, (2023), The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023
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Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants.
Journal article
Wang A. et al, (2023), Nat Genet, 55, 2065 - 2074