Research in the area of Medical Epidemiology focuses on health, health changes, and health determinants in the older population.
We aim to increase our understanding of the aging process, to detect risk and protective factors of the major age-related chronic diseases as well as multimorbidity and disability, and to identify strategies for longer and healthier lives. To that end, we take advantage of the unique population-based database from the longitudinal SNAC-K project that we have been carrying out since 2000 with regular assessment by nurses, psychologists, and physicians. Our group is also coordinating the National E-Infrastructure on Aging Research (NEAR).
The research groups within this area consist of senior and junior researchers from multiple disciplines such as epidemiology, neurology, geriatrics, pharmacy, biostatistics, and physiotherapy. Researchers supervise several postgraduate and doctoral students, and also host visiting researchers from Europe and outside.
There are four research groups within the research area Medical Epidemiology:
Chengxuan Qiu’s research group
- Serhiy Dekhtyar, Principal Researcher
- Yume Imahori, Postdoc
- Yuanjing Li, PhD Student
- Chengxuan Qiu, Senior Lecturer and Group Leader
- Federico Triolo, PhD student
- Björn Karlsson, Affiliated
Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga’s research group
- Ahmad Abbabi, Research Assistant
- Joan Ars Ricart, Affiliated
- Giorgi Beridze, PhD Student
- Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Principal Researcher and Group Leader
- Lu Dai, Postdoc
- Isabel Maria Del Cura Gonzalez, Affiliated
- Susanna Gentili, Postdoc
- Kristoffer Gustavsson, Research Nurse
- Merle Hendel, Affiliated
- Mariam Kirvalidze, PhD student
- Clare Tazzeo, PhD Student
- Davide Liborio Vetrano, Assistant Professor
- Xin Xia, PhD Student
Debora Rizzuto’s research group
- Lena Ragert Blomgren, Database administrator
- Marco Canevelli, Affiliated
- Alexander Darin Mattsson, Database Coordinator
- Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
- Giulia Grande, Postdoc
- Caterina Gregorio, visiting PhD student
- Åsa Hedberg Rundgren, Affiliated
- Scott Hofer, Affiliated
- Babak Hooshmand, Affiliated
- Xiaonan Hu, Database Coordinator
- Ashir Javeed, Postdoc
- Thais Lopes de Oliveira, Postdoc
- Alessandra Marengoni, Affiliated
- Justinas Narbutas, Postdoc
- Andrei Pyko, Affiliated
- Debora Rizzuto, Principal Researcher and Group Leader
- Basile Rommes, System Developer
- Maja Rudolphson, Communications Officer (NEAR)
- Therese Rydberg Sterner, Postdoc
- Linnea Sjöberg, Scientific Communicator
- Britt-Marie Sjölund, Affiliated
- Martina Valletta, PhD student
- Maria Wahlberg, Statistician
- Bolin Wu, Statistician
- Jing Wu, PhD Student
- Alberto Zucchelli, Affiliated
Weili Xu’s research group
- Abigail Dove, PhD Student
- Johan Fastbom, Professor
- Jie Guo, Research Coordinator
- Sakura Sakakibara, PhD Student
- Weili Xu, Senior Lecturer and Group Leader
