Generation Scotland

Generation Scotland Find out about our team, mission, history, funding and more. https://genscot.ed.ac.uk/ We will do this in the safest and most secure way possible. We are growing.

Generation Scotland explores mental and physical health to improve the understanding, prevention and treatment of conditions for current and future generations. Our vision
To improve the health and well-being of current and future generations through partnership between researchers and volunteers. Our mission
Create a large study reflecting the lives of people in Scotland, following individuals and their families from childhood to old age. We will support partnerships between our volunteers and researchers on pressing issues of health and well-being. We will combine responses to questionnaires and detailed historic NHS records with innovative laboratory science and data analytics. We will support open science combined with public engagement and consultation, sharing our findings to influence health policy and improve lives. Our volunteers
Generation Scotland has been recruiting volunteers since 2006. Over 24,000 people have already joined from around 7,000 families. We are inviting new families and family members aged 12 and older to join. We aim to double the number of Generation Scotland volunteers between now and 2024. Our volunteers have helped support research into COVID-19, cancer, diabetes, depression, dementia and much more.

What is Generation Scotland? We are the largest family health study in Scotland. We aim to provide researchers around t...
26/11/2025

What is Generation Scotland?

We are the largest family health study in Scotland.

We aim to provide researchers around the world with a resource that enables scientific discoveries and improves health knowledge and disease treatments. We aim to inform and influence health policy through rigorous scientific evidence to improve lives.

More information: https://genscot.ed.ac.uk/

📢New research!! Generation Scotland volunteers have contributed to a methylome-wide association study examining DNA meth...
12/11/2025

📢New research!!

Generation Scotland volunteers have contributed to a methylome-wide association study examining DNA methylation associated with major depression. This meta-analysis is the largest to date and included 18 studies with over 24,000 participants. The results reveal that depression has distinct biological signatures in the blood, particularly in genes that control immune function, inflammation and metabolism.

Read the full paper, Shen et al. 2025: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00486-4

đź‘Ź CongratulationA HUGE Congrats to Dr Mark Adams, Senior Research Fellow in Psychiatry, who has received the Gershon Pap...
11/11/2025

đź‘Ź Congratulation

A HUGE Congrats to Dr Mark Adams, Senior Research Fellow in Psychiatry, who has received the Gershon Paper of the Year award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics for the paper, Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies, published in Cell (2025).

For more information about the paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01415-6?uuid=uuid%3A38362097-5ece-4c4a-b2fc-294190757fb8

📢NEWS: ReGeneration ScotlandWe have already started inviting eligible volunteers to take part in an exciting new study t...
05/11/2025

📢NEWS: ReGeneration Scotland

We have already started inviting eligible volunteers to take part in an exciting new study that is part of the Generation Scotland project.

ReGeneration Scotland: Revisiting health and genetics to assess change in biological health

For more information: https://genscot.ed.ac.uk/for-volunteers/regeneration-scotland

📢 Reminder!If you can’t join us in person for the Generation Scotland Symposium tomorrow, don’t miss out! 🎥 Watch live o...
25/08/2025

📢 Reminder!
If you can’t join us in person for the Generation Scotland Symposium tomorrow, don’t miss out! 🎥 Watch live on YouTube from ⏰ 10am.

💬 There’ll be chances to ask questions and take part in live polls online too!

💡 Can’t make it live? The full recording will be available to watch anytime afterwards.

Join us in-person or online for a day of engaging discussions, networking and learning as we celebrate the 20th year of Generation Scotland. The symposium wi...

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Generation Scotland, University Of Edinburgh, Institute Of Genetics & Cancer, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road South
Edinburgh
EH42XU

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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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