Peter Joshi
Honorary Fellow
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Peter Joshi is a tenured Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute. He completed his PhD in 2015, having focussed on the effect of parental relatedness of health related traits.
Runner Up Charles Epstein Award American Society of Human Genetics (2019)
Winner Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award European Society of Human Genetics (2015)
Qualifications
BSc (1987 Mathematics, Edinburgh)
Diploma (1988, Actuarial Science, Heriot-Watt)
Fellow of Faculty of Actuaries (1990)
MSc (2011 Quantitative Genetics, Edinburgh)
PhD (2015, Complex Trait Genetics, Edinburgh)
Current PhD students supervised
Erin Macdonald Dunlop : https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/erin-macdonald-dunlop
Past PhD students supervised
Paul Timmers: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/paul-rhj-timmers
Katie Barnes: Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis in the Northern Isles of Scotland
Katherine Kentistou: The genetic underpinnings of adiposity: from GWAS discovery to functional characterisation
Research summary
He now specialises in genomic analysis of complex traits, especially lifespan, building on his expertise as an actuary. He recently ran a consortium of 24 cohorts analysing over 1 million lifespans. His second research strand focuses multi-omic analysis of aging traits and their possible reversal. His publications are listed here.