Sara Hägg

Sara Hägg

Senior Lecturer | Docent
Telephone: +46852482236
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Postal address: C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik, C8 MEB II Hägg, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Associate Professor (Docent) in molecular epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet.

    Education


    - PhD in Computational Biology, Linköping University, 2009

    - MSc in Molecular Biology, Stockholm University, 2003

    - BSc in Computer Science, Stockholm University, 2003


    Postdoc


    - Genetic epidemiology, Medical epidemiology and biostatistics (MEB), KI, 2011-2014

    - Molecular epidemiology, Department of medical sciences, Uppsala University, 2013-2014


    Sabbatical


    - Stanford University School of Medicine, 2016

Research

  • My main research interest is human biological aging
  • how to measure it in human cohorts, understanding causal pathways in aging and identify
    geroprotectors to repurpose for age-related diseases. Markers of human biological aging can be telomere length, epigenetic clocks, functional aging,
    frailty index, etc. I study such markers in longitudinal data from several twin studies of aging (SATSA, GENDER, HARMONY, OCTO-Twin, TwinGene)
    within the Swedish Twin Registry and also using UK biobank data. Methods that I use include longitudinal modelling, causal analyses using drug target Mendelian Randomization, and large-scale genome-wide approaches. For a more detailed description of my current research please visit my project page A geroscientifc approach to study human biological aging.

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Employments

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2015

Supervisor

  • Karolina Gustavsson, Muti-omics of aging and risk for dementia, 2024

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