Kostas Tsilidis

Department of Medicine

Contact Information

Tel.: +30-26510 07734
e-mail: Personal/Dept/Lab URL/: http://users.uoi.gr/ktsilidi/index.html

Research topics (related to the Institute)

1. Molecular epidemiology.
2. Cancer epidemiology.
3. Nutritional epidemiology.
4. Pharmaco-epidemiology.
5. Evidence synthesis.
6. Causal inference.

Research summary

• Dr. Tsilidis is a molecular epidemiologist with a strong focus on cancer aetiology and prevention. His research focuses on the role of genetic, dietary, metabolic and hormonal pathways in cancer development, prognosis and survival. He serves as PI of the Epirus Health Study, an ongoing highly-phenotyped cohort in Greece. Since Jan. 2020, he is co-PI of the World Cancer Research Fund Continuous Update Project team at Imperial College London, where he leads the regular review of the epidemiological literature on the role of diet, nutrition, anthropometric characteristics and physical activity on cancer prevention and prognosis.

Professional background

7.2019 - present	Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Dept. of Medicine, UoI
7.2016 - present	Senior Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology (visiting), Imperial College London, UK
1.2020 - present	Head, World Cancer Research Fund – Continuous Update Program Unit, Imperial College London, UK
1.2018 - present	Head, Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Dept. of Medicine, UoI
3.2018 - present	Senior Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology (honorary), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2.2014 - 7.2019	Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, Dept. of Medicine, UoI
1.2012 - 1.2014	Lecturer in Epidemiology, Dept. of Medicine, UoI
9.2008 - 9.2010	Postdoctoral research fellow in Cancer Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
4.2008 - 8.2008	Postdoctoral research fellow in Cancer Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA