Jonine Figueroa is an American epidemiologist specializing in breast cancer epidemiology. She is a senior investigator and distinguished scholar in the integrative tumor epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She was previously a tenured professor and chair of molecular epidemiology and global cancer prevention at the University of Edinburgh.
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| Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University Stony Brook University Columbia University |
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| Fields | Breast cancer epidemiology |
| Institutions | National Cancer Institute University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael J. Hayman |
Life
editFigueroa received a B.S. in genetics and developmental biology from the Pennsylvania State University, a Ph.D. (2004) in molecular genetics and microbiology from Stony Brook University, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[1] Michael J. Hayman was her doctoral advisor.[2] From 2005 to 2008, she completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Montserrat García-Closas in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a cancer prevention fellow.[3][2]
From 2008 to 2015, Figueroa was an investigator in the DCEG.[3] She was a tenured professor and chair of molecular epidemiology and global cancer prevention at the University of Edinburgh, where she is an honorary fellow.[1] In 2023, she returned to the NCI as a senior investigator and NIH distinguished scholar in the integrative tumor epidemiology branch.[3] She researches the interplay of biological, environmental, and socioeconomic determinants in cancer epidemiology studies.[3] Her specialty focus is breast cancer epidemiology.[3]
References
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- ^ a b "Jonine Figueroa | Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University". renaissance.stonybrookmedicine.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
- ^ a b c d e "Colleagues: Recently Tenured | NIH Intramural Research Program". irp.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-06-04. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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