Eleftheria Zeggini PhD

Eleftheria Zeggini obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Immunogenetics of Juvenile Arthritis from the arc Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, in 2003. She then undertook a brief statistical genetics postdoc focusing on rheumatic disorders, at the Centre for Integrated Genomic and Medical Research, University of Manchester, before moving to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, to work on the genetics of type 2 diabetes. She is currently working at the Institute of Translational Genomics.

In 2006, Ele was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to examine the design, analysis, and interpretation issues in large-scale association studies. She joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute Faculty in November 2008 and leads the Analytical Genomics of Complex Traits group. Eli's scientific interests focused on the genetics and genomics of complex traits, primarily cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal phenotypes, and on addressing relevant statistical genetics issues.