Dr Moneeza Siddiqui
Principal Investigator (Tenure Track)
Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine
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Biography
I trained in Life Sciences and Biochemistry at Sophia College, University of Mumbai, India. I have a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
I moved to Dundee, Scotland to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Professor Colin Palmer. My PhD was on the Genetics of Statin Intolerance and was facilitated by the European Commission-funded PREDICTION-ADR project.
Subsequently, I have worked on the BEAT-DKD project for precision medicine in diabetic kidney disease and the NIHR-funded INdia-Scotland pRecision mEdicine in Diabetes (INSPIRED) global health research unit as an epidemiologist.
Research
I work on epidemiology and precision medicine in type 2 diabetes and related multimorbidities using big, international data resources. I work closely with the Tayside Bioresource specifically the GoDARTS cohort and SHARE register to perform clinical and genetic epidemiology studies. I have applied my background in biochemistry and epidemiology to help stakeholders re-purpose medications and discover reasons why drugs failed to show expected results in RCT settings.
More recently, I have been researching type 2 diabetes in South Asians as part of the NIHR-INSPIRED research unit. Along with collaborators in India, we have made some interesting discoveries about type 2 diabetes in South Asians. Together with early career researchers in the UK and Singapore, I am trying to establish a global resource to study diabetes with a larger focus on ethnicity-specific genetic, clinical and anthropometric risk factors.
Another key research interest is the social dimensions of healthcare. I am working closely with collaborators in the School of Health Sciences to bridge the gap between clinical research, human genetics, social epidemiology and healthcare delivery.
Teaching
I teach seminars in Epidemiology as part of the Masters of Public Health programme.
Stories
Press release
Asian Indians are up to four times more likely than white Europeans to develop young onset type 2 diabetes while having a normal BMI, partly due to a genetic predisposition to poorer insulin secretion.