Speaker: Prof Tim Spector
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Director of TwinsUK
Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College London and honorary consultant Physician at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is also an expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome and started the famous UK Twin Registry in 1993. He is lead researcher behind the world’s biggest citizen science health project – the Covid Symptom study app.
Prof Spector will discuss how Artificial Intelligence and citizen science came together to create the Covid symptom study app to accelerate testing, support contact tracing, expedite any future lockdowns and predict future virus waves by region.
You can watch a recording of the event here.