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hannah
Arem, M.h.s.,
joined the
Nutritional
Epidemiology
Branch (NEB)
as a predoctoral
research fellow
under the Yale
Hannah Arem
University-NCI
Partnership Training Program. In NEB,
Ms. Arem will be working with Rachael
stolzenberg-solomon, Ph.D., M.P.h.,
R.D., on dietary and obesity-related risk
factors for pancreatic cancer incidence
and survival. She will also be advised by
Yale mentors Dr. Susan Mayne and Dr.
Melinda Irwin.
Bryan Bassig, M.P.h., left the
Occupational and Environmental
Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) to
pursue a doctoral degree in epidemiology
through the Yale University-NCI
Partnership Training Program. After
completing his course work at Yale, Mr.
Bassig will return to OEEB in 2012 to
carry out his doctoral research.
samsiddhi Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., left
the Biostatistics Branch (BB) to join
the National Institute of Biomedical
Genomics in Kalyani, India, as an assistant
professor.
Kelly Bolton, Ph.D., an NIH-Oxford-
Cambridge Scholar, received her
doctoral degree from Oxford University,
United Kingdom, based on research
conducted in collaboration with mentors
at Oxford and DCEG’s Laboratory
of Translational Genomics (LTG). Dr.
Bolton is a student in the medical school
of the University of California, Los
Angeles, and will be returning to that
institution to complete her rotations.
Dianna Buckett left the Infections and
Immunoepidemology Branch (IIB) to
enter a master’s program in molecular
microbiology and immunology at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Victoria
Burton joined
the Genetic
Epidemiology
Branch (GEB)
as a postbaccalaureate
fellow.
She received
a B.S. in
Victoria Burton
molecular biology
from the University of California,
San Diego. Under the mentorship of
Stephen Hewitt, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory
of Pathology, NCI Center for Cancer
Research, and Philip R. Taylor, M.D.,
sc.D. (GEB), Ms. Burton will work at
the Advanced Technology Center in the
Tissue Array Research Program. She will
investigate differential protein expression
in tumors of esophageal squamous
cell carcinoma patients from Shanxi
Province, a region in China where rates
of this tumor are very high.
Michael B.
Cook, Ph.D.,
Hormonal and
Reproductive
Epidemiology
Branch, has
been promoted
from research
fellow to
Michael Cook
tenure-track
investigator. Dr. Cook received a Ph.D.
in molecular epidemiology from the
University of Leeds, United Kingdom,
in 2006; joined DCEG as a postdoctoral
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fellow in 2007; and became a research
fellow in 2008. Dr. Cook’s research
interests include the epidemiology of
esophageal adenocarcinoma and its precursor,
Barrett esophagus; the etiology
of testicular and prostate cancer; and sex
differences in cancer pathogenesis.
naomi Frank left LTG after completing
her postbaccalaureate fellowship.
She will pursue a Ph.D. in genetics at the
University of California, Davis.
stephanie George, Ph.D., left NEB
to join the Applied Research Program
in the NCI Division of Cancer Control
and Population Sciences. Dr. George’s
research will focus on energy balance
and the epidemiology of cancer survivorship,
with attention to prognosis,
cancer-related comorbidities, and measurable
biological factors that predict
survival.
erin C. hall,
M.D., M.P.h,
joined IIB
as a special
volunteer. Dr.
Hall received
her M.D.
from Stanford
University
Erin Hall
School of
Medicine in Palo Alto, California,
and her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health in
Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently on
leave from a general surgery residency to
conduct research regarding outcomes of
solid organ transplantation. Dr. Hall will
be working with eric A. engels, M.D.,
M.P.h. (IIB), to evaluate the cumulative
incidence of cancer and to assess the
effects of induction immunosuppression
on cancer risk among organ recipients.