- Linkage Home
- Cohort Consortium Flourishing as It Enters Ninth Year
- Norman Boyd Visits as an HREB Distinguished Lecturer
- New Tool Predicts Colorectal Cancer Risk
- NCI Director's Innovation Awards
- DCEG Welcomes Visiting Scholar Norman Breslow
- Changing Guard at The Institutional Review Board
- New Immunity and Inflammation Planning Group
- Robert Hoover Testifies on Cell Phone Use
- Stephen Rappaport Visits DCEG as Distinguished Lecturer
- NIH Research Festival
- Neil Caporaso Honored for Collaboration
- Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Meeting
- The All-Ireland Cancer Conference
- DCEG Fellows Award for Research Excellence
- New Senior Investigators
- Dyskeratosis Congenita: First NIH Clinical Research Workshop
- Scientific Highlights
- DCEG People in the News
- Kelly Bolton Receives Nick Day Prize
- Comings...Goings
- Ihor Masnyk Retires
Comings...Goings
Laufey Amundadottir
Laufey Amundadottir, Ph.D., has joined the Laboratory of Translational Genomics as a tenure-track investigator. She received her doctoral degree from Georgetown University and completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School before joining deCODE genetics in Iceland as the head of the Division of Cancer Genetics, where she conducted linkage and association analyses in multiple cancers. Her main interest is investigating the genetics and biology of cancers, including pancreatic and prostate cancer. Her laboratory focuses on identifying and characterizing causal genetic variants discovered through genome-wide association studies and on better understanding the role of common sequence variation in the development of cancer.
Carrie Daniel
Carrie R. Daniel, Ph.D., M.P.H., has joined the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch (NEB) as a postdoctoral fellow. She received a master’s degree in epidemiology and a doctoral degree in nutrition from Emory University. She conducted her research and training in cancer and nutritional epidemiology with Dr. Robin Bostick at Emory University and Dr. Marji McCullough at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Her translational research background includes work at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, CDC, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, and ACS. With her mentor, Rashmi Sinha, Ph.D., Dr. Daniel is investigating diet and nutrition in the etiology of renal cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is involved in methodological considerations for the Indian Health Study.
Samantha Jordan
Samantha Jordan has joined NEB as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholars Fellow. She holds a B.S. in biochemistry from Tufts University and is currently a doctoral student at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. She is working with Christian C. Abnet, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Yikyung Park, Sc.D., on the association between tooth loss and cancer risk as well as other studies.
In October, Jill Koshiol, Ph.D., joined the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch as a research fellow. She previously worked in the Genetic Epidemiology Branch (GEB). She is continuing her research on the role of human papillomavirus in the etiology of non-cervical cancer as well as infections associated with lung and hematopoietic malignancies.
Larry Chloupek competing in the 2008 NIH Relay
Larry Chloupek, deputy manager for the DCEG Administrative Resource Center (ARC), has left to take a position as the administrative liaison for the NIH Office of Intramural Research. He has worked at NCI for the last 17 years in various facets of administration. While in DCEG from 2001 through 2008, he specialized in human resources planning and coordinating space for the ARC and the Division. As a former personnel management specialist, he brought a wealth of expertise and knowledge to this role. Additionally, he guided the Division through many complicated moves, including an expansion at Executive Plaza South. “We wish him well in his new position,” said Donna Siegle, Director, Office of Administrative Services.
Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D. (GEB), has transferred to the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) to pursue his clinical interests. He joined GEB as a visiting fellow in 2004 and became a tenure-track investigator in 2006. While in DCEG, he investigated the etiology of hematopoietic malignancies and lymphoproliferative disorders, including the relation of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance to multiple myeloma. He will continue to collaborate with DCEG investigators as he establishes his new research portfolio in CCR.
In January, Christine Mueller, D.O., left the Clinical Genetics Branch to take a position as a clinical reviewer of therapies for inborn errors of metabolism at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Ritsu Sakata
Ritsu Sakata, Ph.D., of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) in Hiroshima, Japan, has joined the Radiation Epidemiology Branch as a special volunteer for six months. She is working with Kiyohiko Mabuchi, M.D., Dr.P.H., and Peter D. Inskip, Sc.D., on studies of radiation-related cancer risk in a cohort of women who were previously irradiated for treatment of benign gynecological diseases. She replaces Kyoji Furukawa, Ph.D., who will be returning to RERF to continue his research on radiation risk estimates for cancer in the cohort of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Laura Sue
In July, Laura Sue, M.P.H., joined the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program as a Cancer Research Training Award Fellow after completing her master’s degree at the Yale School of Public Health. She is working with Regina G. Ziegler, Ph.D., M.P.H., on projects related to anthropometry, estrogens and estrogen metabolism, and breast cancer risk.
