John D. Groopman is an American cancer researcher. Groopman completed his bachelor's degree at

Elmira College Elmira College is a private college in Elmira, New York. Founded as a college for women in 1855, it is the oldest existing college granting degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men. Elmira College became coeducational in a ...

in 1974, then obtained a doctorate in toxicology from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1979. He remained at MIT for postdoctoral research, and subsequently worked for the

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. ...

within the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis. Groopman served as the Anna M. Baetjer Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. As the second independent, degree-granting institution for research in epi ...

, and later the Edyth H. Schoenrich Professorship in Preventive Medicine. In 2010, Groopman received the Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research jointly awarded by the

American Association for Cancer Research The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research. Based in Philadelphia, the AACR focuses on all aspects of cancer research, including basic, clinical, and t ...

and the

Prevent Cancer Foundation The Prevent Cancer Foundation (PCF) (formerly the ''Cancer Research Foundation of America'' or the ''Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation'') is a United States-based charity, and one of the leading US health organizations devoted to the earl ...

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