Dr John Hopper
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
The University of Melbourne
Dr
John Hopper
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053
Tel: +61 3 9344 4017 Fax: +61 3 9347 6136
john@atr1.medrmh.unimelb.edu.au
Biographical note: John obtained a MSc at
Monash University in 1974
and a PhD at
La Trobe University in 1980, both in Mathematical Statistics.
Since 1980 he has been working at
University of Melbourne in the
Faculty of Medicine as a research scientist,
funded by grants from the
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
His major interests have been in developing statistical methods, designing studies,
and applying these methods to the analysis of data
from studies of twins and of families,
with the aim of understanding the rôles of genetic factors, as
well as environmental and lifestyle influences, on health and disease.
He is chief investigator of a number of large twin and family projects
on breast cancer, asthma, colorectal cancer,
and on alcohol and smoking in adolescence and young adulthood.
Also he is a collaborator on a number of other studies,
in particular of osteoporosis and prostate cancer.
Since 1990 John has been Director of the
Australian NHMRC Twin Registry.
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