Gloria Gridley Retires

Gloria Gridley

In April, Gloria Gridley, M.S., Biostatistics Branch, retired after 28 years at NCI. She received a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in biostatistics/epidemiology from Georgetown University. Before coming to NCI, she worked in private industry and at a variety of government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She joined NCI’s Environmental Epidemiology Branch, now called the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, as a statistician in 1981 and transferred to the Biostatistics Branch in 1995. Her research has covered a wide range of cancers and a variety of risk factors for cancer, particularly occupation, nutrition, and medical conditions. She has studied both adult cancers and perinatal risk factors for childhood cancers as well as cancer risk when exposures occurred in childhood. She has developed large administrative databases—containing dietary, census, and medical data—into epidemiologic resources and has worked on several large and long-term international studies in Scandinavia and Shanghai as well as on a large study of U.S. veterans. She has been a generous mentor, teaching and helping DCEG staff and investigators from around the world to use these valuable resources for their research.

Ms. Gridley serves on the Rockville Science and Technology Commission; volunteers for the Washington Statistical Society in the Quantitative Literacy Program and in the Adventures in Science program at NIH; and has been a science fair judge in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. She is active in Graduate Women in Science and recently, as a co-historian, edited an 87-year history of the organization, which will be published in 2009. Ms. Gridley also loves to contra-dance and square-dance, traveling all over the country in pursuit of this hobby.