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Lindsay Morton
Lindsay McOmber Morton is an American Cancer epidemiology, cancer epidemiologist who researches genetic susceptibility to second cancers. She is the Director of the radiation epidemiology branch and head of its cancer survivorship research unit at the National Cancer Institute. Life Morton received a B.A. from Dartmouth College. Thomas B. Roos mentored and introduced Morton to epidemiology during her undergraduate studies. She earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health with a focus on cancer epidemiology. Her 2004 dissertation was titled, ''An epidemiologic investigation of the roles of alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking in the etiology of non-Hodgkin-lymphoma''. Tongzhang Zheng was her doctoral advisor. Patricia Hartge of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was Morton's primary advisor during her final year of her dissertation. She joined the NCI division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) in 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow with a concentratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; the supportive care of cancer patients and their families; and cancer survivorship. NCI is the oldest and has the largest budget and research program of the 27 institutes and centers of the NIH ($6.9 billion in 2020). It fulfills the majority of its mission via an extramural program that provides grants for cancer research. Additionally, the National Cancer Institute has intramural research programs in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The NCI receives more than in funding each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
