Professor Helen Colhoun
AXA Chair of Medical Informatics and Life Course Epidemiology
- MRC Human Genetics Unit
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
- Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Contact details
- Email: helen.colhoun@ed.ac.uk
Background
Helen Colhoun holds the AXA Research Fund endowed Chair in Medical Informatics and Life Course Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and is Honorary Consultant in Public Health with NHS Fife. During the COVID-19 epidemic she has Co-Chaired the COVID-19 Modelling & Research cell at Public Health Scotland.
Helen is affiliated to both the ‘Biomedical Genomics’ section of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit (HGU) and the ‘Genome Medicine’ section in the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine (CGEM) within the Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC) where she leads the Diabetes Medical Informatics and Epidemiology programme. Helen is also affiliated to the Usher Institute and to the BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science. Helen joined the University of Edinburgh in 2016 having previously held tenured professorial posts in epidemiology at the University of Dundee, University College London and University College Dublin. Helen’s research has impacted on and been cited in clinical guidelines internationally and in national policy for diabetes. Helen and her team draw on advances in the availability of high dimensional ‘omics technologies and e-health record data to advance our understanding of the pathogenesis and means of prevention of diabetes complications.
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Persistent C-peptide secretion in Type 1 diabetes and its relationship to the genetic architecture of diabetes
In:
BMC Medicine, vol. 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1392-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Genome-Wide Association Study of Diabetic Kidney Disease Highlights Biology Involved in Glomerular Basement Membrane Collagen
In:
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2019030218
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Use of personalised risk-based screening schedules to optimise workload and sojourn time in screening programmes for diabetic retinopathy: A retrospective cohort study
In:
PLoS Medicine, vol. 16, pp. e1002945
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002945
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Rapid Epidemiological Analysis of Comorbidities and Treatments as risk factors for COVID-19 in Scotland (REACT-SCOT): A population-based case-control study
In:
PLoS Medicine, vol. 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003374
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Risks of and risk factors for COVID-19 disease in people with diabetes: a cohort study of the total population of Scotland
In:
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30405-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)