Cristina Menni is a Lecturer at King’s College London and head of the Metabolomics Research Group at the DTR. She received a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Milan-Bicocca where she specialized in statistical genetics. She joined the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology in 2011. Her research focuses on identifying novel molecular and dietary markers associated with age and age-related diseases, particularly cardiometabolic disorders using metabolomics in conjunction with several other “omics” datasets. More recently, she has been actively involved in COVID-19 research using data from the ZOE COVID Study App.
Ana M. Valdes received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where she specialized in Genetic Epidemiology. She is a Professor of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at the School of Medicine. Her research is focused on deciphering molecular mechanisms linked to complex age-related diseases such as osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease and on the role of gut microbiome composition on human health.
