Rate My Professor Timothy Key

Professor Timothy Key is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Oxford in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. He holds the degrees BVM&S, MSc and DPhil. He joined the University of Oxford in 1985 as a Doctoral Research Studentship holder in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit and progressed through positions as Research Scientist, Senior Scientist and Principal Scientist before becoming Professor of Epidemiology and Deputy Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in 2004. His main research interests are the roles of diet and hormones in the aetiology of cancer, particularly cancers of the breast, prostate and colon, and the health status of vegetarians and vegans. He works primarily on the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) as a member of the Steering Committee for the Oxford cohort of 60,000 subjects, including 30,000 people who do not eat meat.