Speakers

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 first doing a PostDoc (2010-2013) as a Research Fellow in Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working on genetic risk prediction methods. She joined Queen Mary University of London in 2013 as a Postdoctoral Statistical Geneticist, was promoted to Lecturer in Statistical Genetics in 2017, and then to Senior Lecturer in 2021. 

Her research focuses on the genetics of cardiovascular traits, with applications to genetic discovery (especially for Hypertension), pharmacogenetics (response to antihypertensive drugs & statins), polygenic risk scores, and risk prediction. 

She has leading roles within international research consortia, such as the International Consortium of Blood Pressure (ICBP), the Genomics Investigation of Statin Therapy (GIST) Consortium, and the International Consortium of Antihypertensive Pharmacogenetics Studies (ICAPS). 

She is an elected Research Steering Committee member of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium, as well as a Trustee & Executive Committee Member of the British and Irish Hypertension Society.