Professor David Evans
Fellow
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Role(s): Fellow Level: Full Status: Active
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Evans found the notion that one might be able to use mathematics and statistics to answer fundamental questions about the causes of common diseases like osteoporosis completely fascinating. He completed his undergraduate degree and PhD at The University of Queensland and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). He undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG) at the University of Oxford from 2003 until July 2007, working on the International HapMap Project (a map of the human genome that facilitates the genetic mapping of diseases) and then the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC); one of the first large scale genetic studies to look across the genome for disease genes.
In 2007, Evans moved to the University of Bristol to take up a Senior Lecturer and then Reader position. His main task in Bristol was to lead genetic studies within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) - a local population based cohort of 10,000 mothers and children that has since become one of the world’s leading cohorts for genetics research. Since this time, ALSPAC has contributed to over forty large scale genetic studies spanning a diverse range of medically relevant traits and diseases, including osteoporosis and eczema, and has helped identify hundreds of genes that predispose to disease in the process. Evans remains heavily involved in this research and is hoping to find PhD students who are interested in pursuing closer links between Australia and the UK.
His research focuses on dissecting the genetic aetiology of complex traits and diseases by genome-wide association and next generation sequencing approaches, with a particular interest in osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis and eczema, but Evans also performs genetic studies across a wide variety of other complex traits and diseases and is active in the development and refinement of statistical genetics methodologies.
Evans found the notion that one might be able to use mathematics and statistics to answer fundamental questions about the causes of common diseases like osteoporosis completely fascinating. He completed his undergraduate degree and PhD at The University of Queensland and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). He undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG) at the University of Oxford from 2003 until July 2007, working on the International HapMap Project (a map of the human genome that facilitates the genetic mapping of diseases) and then the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC); one of the first large scale genetic studies to look across the genome for disease genes.
In 2007, Evans moved to the University of Bristol to take up a Senior Lecturer and then Reader position. His main task in Bristol was to lead genetic studies within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) - a local population based cohort of 10,000 mothers and children that has since become one of the world’s leading cohorts for genetics research. Since this time, ALSPAC has contributed to over forty large scale genetic studies spanning a diverse range of medically relevant traits and diseases, including osteoporosis and eczema, and has helped identify hundreds of genes that predispose to disease in the process. Evans remains heavily involved in this research and is hoping to find PhD students who are interested in pursuing closer links between Australia and the UK.
His research focuses on dissecting the genetic aetiology of complex traits and diseases by genome-wide association and next generation sequencing approaches, with a particular interest in osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis and eczema, but Evans also performs genetic studies across a wide variety of other complex traits and diseases and is active in the development and refinement of statistical genetics methodologies.
