NIH Recognizes 2012 FARE Winners

Ten DCEG scientists received NIH Fellows Awards for Research Excellence (FARE). This award recognizes scientific research by intramural postdoctoral fellows and by predoctoral fellows conducting their doctoral dissertation research at NIH. Winners receive a $1,000 travel stipend to attend and present their work at a scientific meeting. This year's awardees, listed below along with the titles of their abstracts, represent seven DCEG branches.

Francesco Barone-Adesi, M.D., Ph.D., Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB): "Risk of lung cancer associated with domestic use of different types of coal in Xuanwei, China"

Kathryn Hughes Barry, Ph.D. (OEEB): "Genetic variation in DNA repair genes, pesticide exposure, and prostate cancer"

Clara Bodelon, Ph.D., M.S., Genetic Epidemiology Branch: "Immunogenetics and risk of mortality after lung cancer diagnosis"

Cher Dallal, Ph.D., Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch (HREB): "Accelerometer-based measures of active and sedentary behaviors in relation to breast cancer risk"

Jonathan Hofmann, Ph.D. (OEEB): "Pre-existing kidney disorders and risk of renal cell carcinoma: Results from a population-based case-control study of Caucasians and African Americans"

Gabriel Lai, Ph.D., Nutritional Epidemiology Branch: "The association of diabetes with cancer incidence and mortality in the NIH-AARP Study"

Idan Menashe, Ph.D., formerly of the Biostatistics Branch: "Pathway-based analysis of a bladder cancer genome-wide association study suggests involvement of cellular detoxification processes"

Gila Neta, Ph.D., M.P.P., Radiation Epidemiology Branch: "Variation in the risk of radiation-related breast cancer by histology and estrogen receptor expression"

Wei Tang, Ph.D., Laboratory of Translational Genomics: "Uncommon coding variants within the UGT1A cluster protect against bladder cancer through independent functional mechanisms"

Britton Trabert, Ph.D. (HREB): "Estrogen plus progestin menopausal hormone use: A safe regimen with respect to endometrial cancer risk?"

More information about the FARE competition is available at http://go.usa.gov/9qW.