Najaf Amin

Dr. Najaf Amin is an Associate Professor in Molecular Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She holds advanced degrees including an MSc, DSc, and PhD in genetic epidemiology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (2011).

Research Interests:

• Identifying biomarkers for neuro-psychiatric traits using integrative multi-omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) and brain-based data
• Investigating causal relationships via Mendelian Randomization
• Exploring gut microbiome interactions in mental health and aging
• Developing aging clocks and studying their health implications across populations

Article Trends: Recent work focuses on UK Biobank data ethics, metabolomic influences on depression, and multi-omics approaches to neurodegenerative disease biomarker discovery. The research spans molecular epidemiology, public health, and translational neuroscience.

Research Groups: Dr. Amin contributes to studies on aging clocks and the depression-dementia risk nexus within the University of Oxford's Molecular Epidemiology department.