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Prof Valentina Escott-Price

(She/Her)

Group Leader & Research Division Lead

Using Big Data, machine learning and AI to accelerate discoveries into dementia

Techniques

Bioinformatics, Epigenomics, Genomics, Next generation sequencing, Software development, Statistical modelling

Biography

Valentina's academic career began with a strong foundation in mathematics from St. Petersburg University in Russia, followed by a PhD in Statistics from Cardiff University. Since then, her innovative approaches in statistical methodology have significantly advanced our understanding of Alzheimer's disease. 


As a main member of the international Alzheimer’s disease consortia (International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project consortium (IGAP) and European Alzheimer's Disease DNA BioBank (EADB)), she played a crucial role in identifying new genetic loci linked to Alzheimer's, adding to the knowledge base necessary for developing better diagnostic tools and treatments. 


Valentina’s extensive multidisciplinary expertise spans genetic data analysis in dementias including Parkinson’s disease, Vascular dementia, Frontotemporal dementia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and dementia-related phenotypes. 


Her work focuses on accurately identifying individuals at high risk of disease, utilising polygenic risk scores, biomarkers and environmental risk factors. Her primary interest, however, remains statistical methodology, and she continually strives to optimise approaches and explore novel methodologies for the analysis of large complex datasets. 


Her current objectives include leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning methods to enhance disease risk prediction and patient stratification in large population-level data, as well as employing cutting-edge federated and swarm learning approaches for remote and secure data analyses.

Honours & awards

Women in Neuroscience UK 2025 Award: Leadership in Interdisciplinary Research

News

Key publications

Nature genetics
Published
Transferability of European-derived Alzheimer's disease polygenic risk scores across multiancestry populations
Authors
Aude Nicolas, Richard Sherva, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Yoontae Kim, Masataka Kikuchi, Jigyasha Timsina, Itziar de Rojas, María Carolina Dalmasso, Xiaopu Zhou, Yann Le Guen, Carlos E Arboleda-Bustos, Maria Aparecida Camargos Bicalho, Maëlenn Guerchet, Sven van der Lee, Monica Goss, Atahualpa Castillo, Céline Bellenguez, Fahri Küçükali, Claudia L Satizabal, Bernard Fongang, Qiong Yang, Oliver Peters, Anja Schneider, Martin Dichgans, Dan Rujescu, Norbert Scherbaum, Jürgen Deckert, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Lucrezia Hausner, Laura Molina-Porcel, Emrah Düzel, Timo Grimmer, Jens Wiltfang, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Susanne Moebus, Thomas Tegos, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Fermin Moreno, Jordi Pérez-Tur, María J Bullido, Pau Pastor, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Victoria Álvarez, Han Cao, Nancy Y Ip, Amy K Y Fu, Fanny C F Ip, Natividad Olivar, Carolina Muchnik, Carolina Cuesta, Lorenzo Campanelli, Patricia Solis, Daniel Gustavo Politis, Silvia Kochen, Luis Ignacio Brusco, Mercè Boada, Pablo García-González, Raquel Puerta, Pablo Mir, Luis M Real, Gerard Piñol-Ripoll, Jose María García-Alberca, Jose Luís Royo, Eloy Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Hilkka Soininen, Sami Heikkinen, Alexandre de Mendonça, Shima Mehrabian, Latchezar Traykov, Jakub Hort, Martin Vyhnalek, Katrine Laura Rasmussen, Jesper Qvist Thomassen, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Henne Holstege, John C van Swieten, Harro Seelaar, Jurgen A H R Claassen, Willemijn J Jansen, Inez Ramakers, Frans Verhey, Aad van der Lugt, Philip Scheltens, Jenny Ortega-Rojas, Ana Gabriela Concha Mera, Maria F Mahecha, Rodrigo Pardo, Gonzalo Arboleda, Shahram Bahrami, Vera Fominykh, Geir Selbæk, Caroline Graff, Goran Papenberg, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Anne Boland, Jean-François Deleuze, Luiz Armando de Marco, Edgar Nunes de Moraes, Bernardo de Mattos Viana, Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra, Teresa Juarez-Cedillo, Anthony J Griswold, Tatiana Forund, Jonathan Haines, Lindsay Farrer, Anita DeStefano, Ellen Wijsman, Richard Mayeux, Margaret Pericak-Vance, Brian Kunkle, Alison Goate, Gerard D Schellenberg, Badri Vardarajan, Li-San Wang, Yuk Yee Leung, Clifton L Dalgard, Gael Nicolas, David Wallon, Carole Dufouil, Florence Pasquier, Olivier Hanon, Stéphanie Debette, Edna Grünblatt, Julius Popp, Bárbara Angel, Sergio Gloger, Maria Victoria Chacon, Rafael Aranguiz, Paulina Orellana, Andrea Slachevsky, Christian Gonzalez-Billault, Cecilia Albala, Patricio Fuentes, Perminder Sachdev, Karen A Mather, Richard L Hauger, Victoria Merritt, Matthew Panizzon, Rui Zhang, J Michael Gaziano, Roberta Ghidoni, Daniela Galimberti, Beatrice Arosio, Patrizia Mecocci, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Lucilla Parnetti, Alessio Squassina, Lucio Tremolizzo, Barbara Borroni, Benedetta Nacmias, Paolo Caffarra, Davide Seripa, Innocenzo Rainero, Antonio Daniele, Fabrizio Piras, EADB, Hampton L Leonard, Jenifer S Yokoyama, Mike A Nalls, Akinori Miyashita, Norikazu Hara, Kouichi Ozaki, Shumpei Niida, Julie Williams, Carlo Masullo, Philippe Amouyel, Pierre-Marie Preux, Pascal Mbelesso, Bébène Bandzouzi, Andy Saykin, Frank Jessen, Patrick G Kehoe, Cornelia Van Duijn, Nesrine Ben Salem, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Lotfi Cherni, Michael D Greicius, Magda Tsolaki, Pascual Sánchez-Juan, Marco Aurélio Romano Silva, Tenielle Porter, Simon M Laws, Kristel Sleegers, Martin Ingelsson, Jean-François Dartigues, Sudha Seshadri, Giacomina Rossi, Laura Morelli, Mikko Hiltunen, Rebecca Sims, Wiesje van der Flier, Ole A Andreassen, Humberto Arboleda, Carlos Cruchaga, Valentina Escott-Price, Agustín Ruiz, Kun Ho Lee, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Alfredo Ramirez, Jungsoo Gim, Mark Logue, Jean-Charles Lambert
Transferability of European-derived Alzheimer's disease polygenic risk scores across multiancestry populations
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Published
<em>APOE</em> stratified genome-wide association studies provide novel insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease
Authors
Jesper Qvist Thomassen, Leonard Hampton, Brittany Ulms, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Sami Heikkinen, Pablo Garcia, Atahualapa Castillo-Morales, Masataka Kikuchi, Jungsoo Gim, Han Cao, Fahri Küçükali, Najaf Amin, Dabin Yoon, Itziar de Rojas, Pilar Alvarez Jerez, Victoria Alvarez, Beatrice Arosio, Celine Bellenguez, Sverre Bergh, Kimberly Billingsley, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Merce Boada, Barbara Borroni, Paola Bossù, María J Bullido, Antonio Daniele, Ángel Carracedo, Alexandre de Mendonça, Mark Cookson, Jürgen Deckert, Martin Dichgans, Srdjan Djurovic, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Carole Dufouil, Emrah Düzel, Valentina Escott-Price, Tormod Fladby, Laura Fratiglioni, Amy K Y Fu, Daniela Galimberti, Jose Maria García-Alberca, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Guillermo Garcia-Ribas, Caroline Graff, Timo Grimmer, Edna Grünblatt, OIivier Hanon, Lucrezia Hausner, Stefanie Heilmann-Hemibach, Jakub Hort, Frank Jessen, Kendall Jensen, Caroline Jonson, Yoontae Kim, Nicole Kuznetsov, Ville Leinonen, Anssi Lipponen, Jiao Luo, Mary Makarious, Henna Martiskainen, Carlo Masullo, Patrizia Mecocci, Shima Mehrabian, Pablo Mir, Akinori Miyashita, Susanne Moebus, Kin Y Mok, Laura Molina Porcel, Fermin Moreno, Benedetta Nacmias, Lucilla Parnetti, Pau Pastor, Jordi Pérez-Tur, Oliver Peters, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Gerard Piñol-Ripoll, Julius Popp, Innocenzo Rainero, Luis M Real, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Eloy Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Arvid Rongve, Giacomina Rossi, Jose Luis Royo, Dan Rujescu, Ingvild Saltvedt, María Eugenia Sáez, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Florentino Sanchez-Garcia, Nicolai Sandau, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Katja Scheffler, Norbert Scherbaum, Anja Schneider, Geir Selbæk, Davide Seripa, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Marco Spallazzi, Alessio Squassina, Eystein Stordal, Niccoló Tesi, Lucio Tremolizzo, Kumar P Tripathi, Wiesje M van der Flier, Julie Williams, Jens Wiltfang, Dag Aarsland, Andrew B Singleton, Philippe Amouyel, Stéphanie Debette, Gael Nicolas, Sven van der Lee, Henne Holstege, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Patrick Gavin Kehoe, Kristel Sleegers, Martin Ingelsson, Roberta Ghidoni, Ole A Andreassen, Peter A Holmans, Pascual Sánchez-Juan, Rebecca Sims, Nancy Y Ip, Kun Ho Lee, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Alfredo Ramirez, Agustin Ruiz, Mikko Hiltunen, Jean-Charles Lambert, Cornelia van Duijn, Mike Nalls, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt
<em>APOE</em> stratified genome-wide association studies provide novel insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease

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