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Current Fellows in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch

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Meet the fellows in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) and learn about their work.

See a list of principal investigators in MEB.

  • Leila Abar, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch

    Leila Abar, Ph.D.

    Dr. Abar, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, is working on lifestyle-related modifiable risk factors, mainly diet, and causal determinants of colorectal cancer risk, under the mentorship of Dr. Erikka Loftfield.

  • Prema Bhattacharjee is a predoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch

    Prema S. Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    Dr. Bhattacharjee, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, is conducting research on H. pylori infection-related premalignant and malignant gastric lesions, under the mentorship of M. Constanza Camargo, Ph.D.

  • Daniela Gutierrez Torres, postdoctoral fellow

    Daniela S. Gutiérrez-Torres, Sc.D., M.S.

    Dr. Gutiérrez-Torres, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, is analyzing the impact of occasional smoking on cancer risk and mortality in the United States and worldwide. Her mentor is Dr. Christian Abnet.

  • Giovanny Herrera Ossa is a postdoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch.

    Giovanny A. Herrera Ossa, Ph.D., M.Sc.

    Dr. Herrera Ossa, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, is studying the association between the human microbiome and cancer risk, especially cancers of the lung, colorectum, head/neck, and breast.

  • Michael Kebede is an iCURE predoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch.

    Michael Kebede, M.P.H.

    Mr. Kebede, pre-doctoral fellow and iCURE scholar in MEB, investigates moderate to vigorous physical activity and breast tumor microenvironment. His mentors are Charles Matthews, Ph.D., M.S., Melissa Treoster, Ph.D, M.P.H, and Jonine Figueroa, Ph.D, M.P.H.

  • Douglas Monroe is a postdoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch

    Douglas Monroe, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    Dr. Monroe, an iCURE postdoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB), studies neighborhood context and dietary factors in relation to pancreatic cancer, under the mentorship of Drs. Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, MEB, and Carolyn Reyes-Guzman in the Tobacco Control Branch of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.

  • dr. Mahdi Nalini is a postdoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch.

    Mahdi Nalini, M.D., Ph.D.

    Dr. Nalini, visiting postdoctoral fellow in MEB, studies metabolomics and exposure biomarkers in cancer and other chronic diseases, within collaborations between NCI and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the International Hundred K+ Cohort Consortium. His mentors are Arash Etemadi, M.D., Ph.D., and Christian C. Abnet, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Alaina Shreves

    Alaina Shreves, M.S.

    Ms. Shreves, predoctoral fellow in MEB, is currently pursuing a D.Phil. through the NIH Oxford Cambridge Program. As an NIH Oxford Scholar, she works with Dr. Charles Matthews (MEB) and Oxford mentors Drs. Aiden Doherty and Ruth Travis to investigate what types of physical activity are associated with lower cancer incidence.

  • Kadiatou Traore is a Medical Research Scholar in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch.

    Kadiatou Traore, B.S.

    Ms. Traore, Medical Research Scholar and predoctoral fellow in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, is investigating risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Malawi under the mentorship of Christian Abnet, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Emmanuel Uduh is a postbaccalaureate fellow in MEB

    Emmanuel O. Uduh, B.S.

    Mr. Uduh, postbaccalaureate fellow in MEB, is studying the etiology of esophageal and gastric cancers under the mentorship of Drs. Yukiko Yano and Christian Abnet.

  • Eleanor Watts, D.Phil., M.P.H.

    Eleanor L. Watts, D.Phil., M.P.H.

    Dr. Watts, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, is investigating the role of physical activity in relation to cancer, under the mentorship of Steven C. Moore, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Yukiko Yano, postdoctoral fellow

    Yukiko Yano, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    Dr. Yano, Independent Research Scholar and research fellow in MEB, conducts methodologic and etiologic studies of the human oral microbiome as well as studies of risk factors for esophageal and gastric cancer. Her mentors are Christian Abnet, Ph.D., M.P.H., Rashmi Sinha, Ph.D., and Emily Vogtmann, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Ting Zhang, Ph.D. - postdoctoral fellow

    Ting Zhang, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    Dr. Zhang, postdoctoral fellow in MEB, investigates dietary factors, metabolomics, as well as genetic components of these exposures in the etiology of pancreatic cancer in cohort studies, under the mentorship of Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.

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