Valentina Escott-Price

Valentina Escott-Price is a Russian statistician and professor who specialises in biostatistics and genetic epidemiology. Escott-Price is a Professor at the MRC Centre for Neuro‑Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on using advances in technology and large‑scale datasets to identify genetic risk factors and biological pathways involved in complex disorders, and on applying integrative analytical approaches to add biological insight to genetic findings.

Early life and education Escott-Price is from the Soviet Union. She studied mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University in 1991. Escott-Price completed in her doctorate in statistics at the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University. She analyses large genome‑wide, exome and sequencing datasets from cohorts comprising tens of thousands of individuals. to improve risk prediction and gene discovery, including through federated learning and multi‑omic integration.

As a member of the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project, Escott-Price identified 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease and two additional Alzheimer's‑associated genes. She examines the genetic architecture of neurodegenerative diseases, including the evaluation of polygenic risk for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and the relationship between individual polygenic risk scores and disease susceptibility.

Selected publications