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Research project

Hanson RG/15/17/31749 Epigenetic Biomarkers and Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk in Children

Staff

Lead researcher

Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson

Connect with Mark

Email: M.Hanson@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology

Research interests

  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture in late adulthood
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone mineral accrual in childhood
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Karen Lillycrop

Professor of Epigenetics

Research interests

  • Epigenetics
  • Human Disease
Connect with Karen

Email: K.A.Lillycrop@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Hazel Inskip MSc, PhD, FFPH

Connect with Hazel

Email: hmi@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Plants and Food Security

We study the response of plants to the environment at the molecular, whole plant and ecological levels. This includes interactions with nematodes, insects and microbes.

Research outputs

Developmental origins of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance
Mark A. Hanson & Michael K. Skinner, 2016, Environmental Epigenetics, 2(1), 1-9
DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvw002
Type: article
Associations of infant milk feed type on early postnatal growth of offspring exposed and unexposed to gestational diabetes in utero
I.M. Aris, S.E. Soh, M.T. Tint, S.M. Saw, V.S. Rajadurai, K.M. Godfrey, P.D. Gluckman, F. Yap, Y.S. Chong & Y.S. Lee, 2015, European Journal of Nutrition
DOI: 10.1007/s00394-015-1057-0
Type: article