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Dr Helen R Warren

Helen R

Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genetics

Centre: Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine

Email: h.r.warren@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 2120

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Dr Helen Warren is a Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genetics within the Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

After receiving a 1st Class Honours BSc degree in Mathematics with Statistics at Royal Holloway University of London in 2007, and then her PhD in Statistics from the University of Surrey, she joined the field of Genetic Epidemiology. During her first PostDoc (2010-2013) as a Research Fellow in Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she worked on a methodology project investigating statistical methods for genetic risk prediction, alongside breast cancer genetics analysis projects and contribution to the UCLEB consortium. She joined Queen Mary University of London in 2013 as a Postdoctoral Statistical Geneticist, and was promoted to a Lecturer in Statistical Genetics in 2017, then to a Senior Lecturer in 2021.

Her research focuses on the genetics of cardiovascular traits, with applications to genetic discovery, pharmacogenetics, polygenic risk scores, and risk prediction.

She has leading roles within international research consortia:

  • a Steering Committee member, project lead & lead analyst within the International Consortium of Blood Pressure (ICBP)
  • a co-chair, project lead & lead analyst within the Genomics Investigation of Statin Therapy (GIST) Consortium
  • Project lead & lead analyst within the International Consortium of Antihypertensive Pharmacogenetics Studies (ICAPS)

Societies and Positions of Responsibility:

  • an elected Research Steering Committee member of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium
  • British and Irish Hypertension Society (member since 2014; Research Working Party committee member; Young Investigator (YI) Working Party committee member and was one of the three volunteer YI representatives who launched the YI Network in 2016)
  • Invited working party member for ICDA (International Common Disease Alliance) Maps to Mechanisms working party (since 2019)
  • Associate Guest Editor for Special Issue of Frontiers in Pharmacology Journal with Research Topic “Outcomes of Cardiovascular Drug Use in the Older Population” (2020)

Awards

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2018
  • CHARGE Early Career Award & Junior Travel Grant for oral & poster presentations, 2018 conference meeting
  • Physiological Genomics PG-SNP Journal Star Reviewer 2018
  • “James V. Neel” Young Investigator Postdoctoral Award at International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) conference, Baltimore, USA, October 2015, for oral presentation “Investigating the Association of Rare Genetic Variants with Blood Pressure traits”
  • Young Investigator Poster Award at the British and Irish Hypertension Society conference, Dublin, September 2016, for “Novel Loci Discovery for Blood Pressure and Heart Rate using the Exome Chip”
  • Selected as “Reviewer’s Choice” at ASHG conference, Vancouver, Oct 2016 for Presentation: “Many novel Genetic loci associated with Blood Pressure are identified from a GWAS in UK Biobank”
  • PhD Student Poster Prize at GSK UK Statistics & Programming Conference, Oct 2009
  • 9 RHUL Mathematics prizes (e.g. Sherbrooke Prize: Top University of London Maths Finalist)

Travel Grant Awards

  • CHARGE Travel Grant Award, May 2023
  • CHARGE Junior Travel Grant Award, March 2017
  • Postdoctoral Travel Grant from QMUL Life Sciences Institute, 2016 
  • Bloomsbury Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics (BCGES) Postdoctoral Travel Grant, 2015 
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