Current Research Grants
Wellcome Trust, Arthritis Research Campaign, Chronic Disease Research Foundation, British Heart Foundation, European Union, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and BBSRC.

Current Areas of Research
Arthritis, obesity, ageing, osteoporosis, eye disease, cardiovascular disease, stroke, memory, sexuality, migraine, musical ability and taste.

Current Scientific Positions
Executive Committee of the Scientific Advisory Board - National Osteoporosis Society
Abstract Selection Committee American College of Rheumatology
Abstract Selection Committee World Congress of Osteoporosis
Abstract Selection Committee American Society of Bone & Mineral Research
Member of European (GREES) and OMERACT study group on guidelines for therapeutic studies & markers of osteoarthritis

Memberships
British Society of Rheumatology, American College of Rheumatology, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, American Society of Human Genetics, MRC Interdisciplinary Research Centre, Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Pharmaceutical Company collaborations
Principal investigator and/or consultant to the following companies in the last five years: Crescent Diagnostics, Wyeth, Proctor & Gamble, Servier, Pharmascience, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer/Pharmacia, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Astra-Zeneca, Sequenom Inc.

Publications
Over 400 peer reviewed papers in osteoporosis, arthritis and genetics of common diseases: Five recent papers include:

Andrew T, Aviv A, Falchi M, Gardner JP, Lu X, Kimura M, Kato BS, Valdes AM, Spector TD. Mapping genetic loci that determine leukocyte telomere length in a large sample of unselected female sib-pairs. American Journal of Human Genetics 2006 Mar; 78 (3): 480-6.

Valdes A, VanOene M, , Hart DJ, Surdulescu GL, Loughlin J, Doherty M, Spector TD. Reproducible genetic associations between candidate genes and clinical knee osteoarthritis in men and women. Arthritis and Rheumatism.2006; 54 (2): 533-539

Wilson S, Adam G, Langdown M, Reneland R, Braun A, Andrew T, Surdulescu GL, Norberg M, Dudbridge F, Reed PW, Sambrook P, Kleyn PW, Spector TD. Linkage and potential association of obesity-related phenotypes with two genes on chromosome12q24 in a female dizygous twin cohort. European Journal of Human Genetics 2006 Mar; 14 (3):340-8.

Valdes A, Andrew T, Gardner JP, Kimura M, Oelsner E,Cherkas L, Aviv A, Spector TD. Obesity, cigarette smoking and telomere length in women. The Lancet 2005 Aug 20-26 , 366 (9486): 662-4

Andrew T, Antoniades L, Scurrah KJ, Macgregor AJ, Spector TD. Risk of Wrist Fracture in Women Is Heritable and Is Influenced by Genes That Are Largely Independent of Those Influencing BMD. J Bone Miner Res. 2005 Jan; 20(1):67-74.

You can access the full list of publications and PDF's on www.twinsUK.ac.uk.