DCEG People in the News

In February, Christian C. Abnet, Ph.D., M.P.H., Nutritional Epidemiology Branch (NEB), gave a talk on “Etiology of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Eastern and Western populations” at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Blanche P. Alter, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB), gave talks on inherited bone marrow failure syndromes at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey, in January; Stanford School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in February; and the 10th Annual Diamond Blackfan Anemia International Consensus Conference in New York City in March.

In February, Louise A. Brinton, Ph.D., Chief of the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch (HREB), gave a seminar on “Infertility and associated treatments and subsequent risk of cancer” at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

In March, Neil E. Caporaso, M.D., Genetic Epidemiology Branch (GEB), spoke on “A genome-wide association study of smoking” at the International Lung Cancer Consortium meeting in Paris.

In April, Joanne S. Colt, M.P.H., M.S., Assistant Branch Chief of the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, gave an invited talk on “Bladder cancer in New England: Etiology and survival” at the Northeastern Genitourinary Oncology Symposium in Burlington, Vermont.

In January, Sanford M. Dawsey, M.D. (NEB), gave a talk on “Precursor lesions and primary screening techniques for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma” at the Second Beijing International Workshop on Early Detection and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Tumors held
in China.

In March, Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D., Biostatistics Branch (BB), spoke on “The value of adding single nucleotide polymorphism data to a model that predicts breast cancer risk” as a keynote speaker at the Conference on Statistical Methods for Complex Data: In Honor of Raymond J. Carroll
in College Station, Texas.

In January, Li Jiao, M.D., Ph.D. (NEB), gave a talk on “Gene, diet, lifestyle and risk of pancreatic cancer” at the Dan Duncan Cancer Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

In March, Hormuzd A. Katki, Ph.D. (BB), gave a talk on “Insights into p-values and Bayes factors from false positive and false negative Bayes factors” at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

In March, James V. Lacey, Jr., Ph.D. (HREB), gave a seminar on “Progression from endometrial hyperplasia to carcinoma: Predictors, problems, and possibilities” at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

In March, Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D. (GEB), spoke on “MicroRNA expression in lung cancer” at the University of Milan. The same month, she gave a talk titled “A genome-wide association study of lung cancer” at the International Lung Cancer Consortium meeting in Paris.

In April, Mary Lou McMaster, M.D. (GEB), gave a talk on “Familial Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia” at the International Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation Educational Forum in Memphis.

In March, Melissa Rotunno, Ph.D. (GEB), gave a talk on “Phase I metabolic genes and risk of lung cancer: Multiple polymorphisms and mRNA expression” at the NCI Center for Cancer Research’s Ninth Annual Fellows and Young Investigators Colloquium in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

In February, Sharon A. Savage, M.D. (CGB), gave a talk on “Clinical and molecular characterization of dyskeratosis congenita, a cancer predisposition syndrome” at the meeting Pediatric Cancer Genetics: From Gene Discovery to Cancer Screening at Texas Children’s Cancer Center in Houston.

In March, Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Dr.P.H. (Chief of NEB), gave two lectures — “Can nutrition really cause and prevent cancer? (And can new -omics and internet technologies help answer the question?)” at Imperial College, London, and “Validation and qualification of surrogate end points: A cancer perspective” at a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Qualification of Biomarkers as Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease Risk in Washington, DC.

In April, Philip R. Taylor, M.D., Sc.D. (GEB), spoke on “Esophageal cancer: Epidemiology and prevention” at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
in Washington, DC. During the same month, he also gave a talk titled “SELECT: What next?” at the Experimental Biology Meeting, Selenium Session, in New Orleans.

In March, Kai Yu, Ph.D. (BB), gave an invited talk, “Stratification, evaluation, and adjustment in genome-wide association studies,” at the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society Meeting in San Antonio.

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