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Professor Jemma C. Hopewell

Professor Jemma C. Hopewell

Contact information


Jemma.Hopewell@ndph.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 743661


Sam Smith
HopewellPA@ndph.ox.ac.uk

Jemma Hopewell

BSc (Hons) MSc PhD (Cantab) FESC

Professor of Precision Medicine & Epidemiology

  • MSc in Global Health Science Module Lead: Genetic Epidemiology
  • EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Health Data Science Module Lead: Genetics
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University

Interests: Cardiovascular Disease, Arrhythmias, Risk Factors, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Pharmacogenetics

Professor Jemma Hopewell leads a team of genetic epidemiologists, clinical fellows, medical statisticians and bioinformaticians in a programme of research focusing on the use of genetic and clinical trial-based studies to investigate the causes and treatments for cardiovascular disease and arrhythmias. She has particular interests in using epidemiological, genetic and other large-scale 'omic approaches to improve our understanding of drug targets and disease mechanisms, perform genomic characterisation of vascular disease and its risk factors, particularly Lp(a), and in determining predictors of patient response to therapy.

Jemma leads and collaborates on numerous trial-based, epidemiological, and genetic epidemiological projects involving CTSU's vascular mega-trials (e.g. HPS, SEARCH, THRIVE, REVEAL), large-scale studies and biobanks (e.g. PROCARDIS, UK Biobank), and international consortia (e.g.CARDIoGRAMplusC4D, ISGC GoLEAD, CATCH-ME), and working with colleagues from across academia and other industries.

She has Steering Committee, DMC and invited expert roles in numerous large-scale studies and clinical trials, as well as for national agencies and funders, ranging from the Lp(a) Scientific Advisory Board, to MHRA, to Chairing the American Heart Association Fellowship Committee (Human Studies 22-23).

Hopewell Group 

  • Research Staff & Affiliates

Dr Parag Gajendragadkar, Senior Clinical Fellow in Electrophysiology

Federico Murgia, Bioinformatician

Dr Alison Offer, Senior Statistical Programmer

Dr Elsa Valdes-Marquez, Senior Medical Statistician

Adam Von Ende, Medical Statistician

  • DPhil Students

Dr Christian Camm,  British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellow

Katerina Lind

  • Administration

Sam Smith, Personal Assistant


  • Past Staff and Students

Dr Maddalena Ardissino, MSc Student

Cori Campbell, Oxford British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence Student

Lorna Cowan, Oxford British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence Student

Tanya Domun, UNIQ+/Oxford British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence Student

Dr Parag Gajendragadkar, DPhil Student & British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellow

Dr Issaac Ghinai, MSc Student

Mengyu Gu, Statistical training Fellow

Dr Maysson Ibrahim, Senior Bioinformatician

Kingwai Lau, Bioinformatician

Dr Lerato Magosi, DPhil Student

Dr Evangelos Oikonomou, DPhil Student

Jonathan Tan, RSCI Student

Larissa Ange Tchuisseu-Kwangoua, Genetic Epidemiology Clinical Intern

Hanning Zhu, Medical Statistician