Professor Naomi Allen
Research groups
- Big data
- UK Biobank
- Accurately estimating the burden of disease using electronic health records
- An analysis of the measurement and mechanisms of health inequalities
- Hormones, growth factors and health outcomes in middle and old age: a PheWAS approach in UK Biobank
- How does obesity cause cancer? Investigating potential mechanisms by metabolomics
Websites
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UK Biobank
Senior Epidemiologist
Naomi Allen
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Professor in Epidemiology
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Naomi Allen is a Professor in Epidemiology, based in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU).
She joined UK Biobank as Senior Epidemiologist in 2011, and became Chief Scientist in 2019, where she is responsible for following-up participants both through linkage with routine health-related datasets, and through web-based questionnaires. She is also involved in developing the scientific strategy for future enhancements for the study.
Her research interest is largely in the role of diet, obesity and circulating biomarkers in cancer development. She is co-Principal Investigator of the Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group, which aims to conduct individual pooled analyses of the relationship between circulating biomarkers and prostate cancer risk from cohort studies from around the world.
Recent publications
UK Biobank: Transforming drug discovery and precision medicine.
Journal article
Bešević J. et al, (2026), Br J Pharmacol, 183, 234 - 248
UK Biobank at 20 years old: a growing, global resource for dementia research
Journal article
ALLEN N. et al, (2025), Nature Reviews Neurology
Evaluation of the 4Kscore Test in Relation to Subsequent Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
Journal article
Smith-Byrne K. et al, (2025), Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 34, 2058 - 2067
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants.
Journal article
UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium ., (2025), Nature, 645, 692 - 701
