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-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's 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.
Tim Key has worked as a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Oxford since 1985.
Recent publications
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for overall, aggressive, and early onset prostate cancer using Mendelian Randomisation and tumour spatial transcriptomics.
Journal article
Desai TA. et al, (2024), EBioMedicine, 105
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Circulating free insulin-like growth factor-I and prostate cancer: a case-control study nested in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition.
Journal article
Cheng TS. et al, (2024), BMC Cancer, 24
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Alcohol intake and endogenous sex hormones in women: Meta-analysis of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization.
Journal article
Tin Tin S. et al, (2024), Cancer
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15
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Assessing Performance of Contemporary Plant-Based Diets against the UK Dietary Guidelines: Findings from the Feeding the Future (FEED) Study
Journal article
Lawson I. et al, (2024), Nutrients, 16, 1336 - 1336