Simon Cox

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Emailsimon.coxed.acuk

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 1 Jan 2012

Master of Science (with Distinction), University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 1 Jan 2009

Master of Arts, University of St Andrews

Award Date: 1 Jan 2003

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Edinburgh Mental Health Network

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Large-scale blood pressure GWAS accounting for gene-depression interactions in 564,680 individuals from diverse populations
Lee, S., Miller, C. L., Bentley, A. R., Brown, M. R., Nagarajan, P., Noordam, R., Morrison, J. L., Schwander, K., Westerman, K., Kho, M., Kraja, A. T., de Vries, P. S., Ammous, F., Aschard, H., Bartz, T. M., Do, A., Dupont, C. T., Feitosa, M. F., Gudmundsdottir, V. & Guo, X. & 131 others, Harris, S. E., Hikino, K., Huang, Z., Lefevre, C., Lyytikäinen, L.-P., Milaneschi, Y., Nardone, G. G., Santin, A., Schmidt, H., Shen, B., Sofer, T., Sun, Q., Tan, Y. A., Tang, J., Thériault, S., van der Most, P. J., Ware, E. B., Weiss, S., Xing, W. Y., Yu, C., Zhao, W., Ansari, M. A. Y., Anugu, P., Attia, J. R., Bazzano, L. A., Bis, J. C., Breyer, M., Cade, B., Chen, G., Collins, S., Corley, J., Davies, G., Dörr, M., Du, J., Edwards, T. L., Faquih, T., Faul, J. D., Fohner, A. E., Fretts, A. M., Gangireddy, S., Gepner, A., Graff, M., Hofer, E., Homuth, G., Hood, M. M., Jie, X., Kähönen, M., Kardia, S. L. R., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C. A., Launer, L. J., Levy, D., Maheshwari, M., Martin, L. W., Matsuda, K., McNeil, J. J., Nolte, I. M., Okochi, T., Raffield, L. M., Raitakari, O. T., Risch, L., Risch, M., Roux, A. D., Ruiz-Narvaez, E. A., Russ, T. C., Saito, T., Schreiner, P. J., Scott, R. J., Shikany, J., Smith, J. A., Snieder, H., Spedicati, B., Tai, E. S., Taylor, A. M., Taylor, K. D., Tesolin, P., van Dam, R. M., Wang, R., Wenbin, W., Xie, T., Yao, J., Young, K. L., Zhang, R., Zonderman, A. B., BioBank Japan Project, Lifelines Cohort Study, Concas, M. P., Conen, D., Cox, S. R., Evans, M. K., Fox, E. R., de las Fuentes, L., Giri, A., Girotto, G., Grabe, H. J., Gu, C., Gudnason, V., Harlow, S. D., Holliday, E., Jost, J. B., Lacaze, P., Lee, S., Lehtimäki, T., Li, C., Liu, C.-T., Morrison, A. C., North, K. E., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Peyser, P. A., Province, M. M., Psaty, B. M., Redline, S., Rosendaal, F. R., Rotimi, C. N., Rotter, J. I., Schmidt, R., Sim, X., Terao, C., Weir, D. R., Zhu, X., Franceschini, N., O’Connell, J. R., Jaquish, C. E., Wang, H., Manning, A., Munroe, P. B., Rao, D. C., Chen, H., Gauderman, W. J., Bierut, L. J., Winkler, T. W. & Fornage, M., Apr 2026, In: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 7, 2, 17 p., 100566.
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Agreement between self-report and device-measured sedentary behavior varies with cognitive function
Yang, Z., Moodie, J. E., Dall, P. M., Thomis, M., Chastin, S. F. M., Skelton, D. A., Russ, T. C., Deary, I. J., Cox, S. R. & van Uffelen, J. G. Z., 23 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychology and Aging. 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Gardening, healthy aging, and longevity: Longitudinal evidence from 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921
Corley, J. (Lead Author), Pattie, A., Harris, S. E., Deary, I. J. & Cox, S. R., Feb 2026, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 109, 10 p., 102889.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Blood-based DNA methylation captures variance in adult height
Hatton, A. A., Hillary, R. F., McCartney, D. L., Harris, S. E., Cox, S. R., Evans, K. L., Walker, R. M., Suderman, M., Yousefi, P., McRae, A. F. & Marioni, R. E., 20 Jan 2026, In: Genome Biology. 27, 1, p. 37 37.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Extracting geriatric syndromes from electronic health records: a scoping review
Squires, C., Duignan, A., Peterson, A., Kilgour, A. H. M., Russ, T. C., Cox, S. R. & Shenkin, S. D., 9 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European geriatric medicine.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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11 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
10 Participation in conference
1 Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
1 Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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- 1 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

Edinburgh Doors Open Day
Skarabela, B. (Contributor), Davies, G. (Contributor) & Cox, S. (Contributor)
27 Sept 2025
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Dementia Stewardship Networking Event
Skarabela, B. (Contributor) & Cox, S. (Speaker)
10 Mar 2025
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
The heart of the matter
Cox, S. (Contributor)
11 May 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Cox, S. R. (Invited speaker)
26 Jul 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Organisation for Human Brain Mapping 2017
Cox, S. R. (Invited speaker)
27 Jun 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

6 Active
18 Finished

Blood- and saliva-based DNA methylation biomarkers of disease
Marioni, R. (Principal Investigator), Cox, S. (Co-investigator) & Harris, S. (Co-investigator)
Medical Research Council
1/05/26 → 30/04/30
Project: Research
Re-submission: Longitudinal multi-omic biomarkers for neurocognitive decline prior to dementia onset
Harris, S. (Principal Investigator), Bastin, M. (Co-investigator), Cox, S. (Co-investigator), Davies, G. (Co-investigator), Deary, I. (Co-investigator), King, D. (Co-investigator), Marioni, R. (Co-investigator), Russ, T. (Co-investigator) & Valdes Hernandez, M. (Co-investigator)
National Institutes of Health
30/09/24 → 30/06/29
Project: Research
Preterm birth, Neurodevelopment and Cognition in Children: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms
Boardman, J. (Principal Investigator), Cox, S. (Co-investigator), Marioni, R. (Co-investigator), Reynolds, R. (Co-investigator), Richardson, H. (Co-investigator), Tsanas, T. (Co-investigator) & Whalley, H. (Co-investigator)
Medical Research Council
1/11/22 → 31/10/27
Project: Research
Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Aging-Related Cognitive Change Prior to Dementia Onset
Cox, S. (Principal Investigator) & Deary, I. (Co-investigator)
Non-EU other
15/08/21 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Aging-Related Cognitive Change Prior to Dementia Onset
Cox, S. (Principal Investigator), Deary, I. (Co-investigator) & Marioni, R. (Co-investigator)
National Institutes of Health
15/08/21 → 31/07/26
Project: Research

cAge and bAge EWAS - Epigenome-wide association study of chronological age (linear and quadratic) and of survival
Campbell, A. (Creator), Harris, S. (Creator), Liewald, D. (Creator), Hayward, C. (Creator), Porteous, D. (Creator), Sudlow, C. (Creator), Evans, K. (Creator), Horvath, S. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Robinson, M. R. (Creator), Vallejos Meneses, C. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Bernabeu Gómez, E. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator), Mccartney, D. (Creator), Gadd, D. (Creator), Hillary, R. (Creator), Lu, A. T. (Creator), Murphy, L. (Creator) & Wrobel, N. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 1 Oct 2022
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3792, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507115
Dataset
Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of chronic low-grade inflammation across diverse population cohorts - Bayesian EWAS and CRP Predictors
Loh, M. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Yousefi, P. (Creator), Suderman, M. (Creator), Relton, C. (Creator), Hillary, R. (Creator), Ng, H. K. (Creator), Mccartney, D. (Creator), Elliott, H. (Creator), Walker, R. (Creator), Campbell, A. (Creator), Huang, F. (Creator), Direk, K. (Creator), Welsh, P. (Creator), Sattar, N. (Creator), Corley, J. (Creator), Hayward, C. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Sudlow, C. (Creator), Evans, K. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator) & Chambers, J. C. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 16 Jan 2024
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7546, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.02.23298000v1
Dataset
Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing
Wootton, R. E. (Creator), Clarke, T.-K. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator), Bostrand, S. (Creator), Vaher, K. (Creator), De Nooij, L. (Creator), Harris, M. A. (Creator), Cole, J. H. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Mccartney, D. (Creator), Walker, R. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Evans, K. (Creator) & Whalley, H. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 24 Nov 2020
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2956
Dataset
"DAVIES_MP_2016.zip" - Data supporting Davies et al. Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N=112 151).
Harris, S. (Creator), Ritchie, S. (Creator), Luciano, M. (Creator), Fawns-Ritchie, C. (Creator), Lyall, D. (Creator), Cullen, B. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator), Porteous, D. (Creator), Evans, J. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Gallacher, J. (Creator), Craddock, N. (Creator), Pell, J. (Creator), Smith, D. (Creator), Gale, C. (Creator), Deary, I. (Creator), Hayward, C. (Creator), Davies, G. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Liewald, D. (Creator), Hill, D. (Creator) & Hagenaars, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 4 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2560
Dataset
DNA methylation-based predictors of metabolic traits in Scottish and Singaporean cohorts
Ng, H. K. (Creator), Moodie, J. E. (Creator), Gadd, D. (Creator), Mccartney, D. (Creator), Bernabeu Gómez, E. (Creator), Campbell, A. (Creator), Redmond, P. (Creator), Page, D. (Creator), Corley, J. (Creator), Harris, S. (Creator), Tay, D. (Creator), Deary, I. (Creator), Evans, K. (Creator), Robinson, M. R. (Creator), Chambers, J. C. (Creator), Loh, M. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Hillary, R. (Creator), Taylor, A. (Creator) & Smith, H. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 10 Apr 2025
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7817
Dataset

With a simple test: What your responsiveness reveals about your health
Cox, S.
3/02/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
What your reaction time reveals about your health (and how to measure it with simple home test)
Cox, S.
5/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
The reaction time test shows how your brain is on it and how long you live. Just a ruler is enough for you
Cox, S.
26/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
What your reaction times reveal about your health and how you can measure them with a simple home test
Cox, S.
22/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Quick home health tests: Check your reaction times
Cox, S.
15/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research

Simon Cox

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Large-scale blood pressure GWAS accounting for gene-depression interactions in 564,680 individuals from diverse populations

Agreement between self-report and device-measured sedentary behavior varies with cognitive function

Gardening, healthy aging, and longevity: Longitudinal evidence from 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921

Blood-based DNA methylation captures variance in adult height

Extracting geriatric syndromes from electronic health records: a scoping review

Edinburgh Doors Open Day

Dementia Stewardship Networking Event

The heart of the matter

21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Organisation for Human Brain Mapping 2017

Blood- and saliva-based DNA methylation biomarkers of disease

Re-submission: Longitudinal multi-omic biomarkers for neurocognitive decline prior to dementia onset

Preterm birth, Neurodevelopment and Cognition in Children: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms

Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Aging-Related Cognitive Change Prior to Dementia Onset

Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Aging-Related Cognitive Change Prior to Dementia Onset

cAge and bAge EWAS - Epigenome-wide association study of chronological age (linear and quadratic) and of survival

Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of chronic low-grade inflammation across diverse population cohorts - Bayesian EWAS and CRP Predictors

Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing

"DAVIES_MP_2016.zip" - Data supporting Davies et al. Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N=112 151).

DNA methylation-based predictors of metabolic traits in Scottish and Singaporean cohorts

With a simple test: What your responsiveness reveals about your health

What your reaction time reveals about your health (and how to measure it with simple home test)

The reaction time test shows how your brain is on it and how long you live. Just a ruler is enough for you

What your reaction times reveal about your health and how you can measure them with a simple home test

Quick home health tests: Check your reaction times

Simon Cox

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Education/Academic qualification

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