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Senior Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Metabolic Epidem
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Dr. Gierach earned both her M.P.H. (2004) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh with a focus in cancer epidemiology and women’s health. She joined the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch as a NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow in 2006, became a tenure-track investigator in 2010, and was awarded tenure in 2017. Dr. Gierach has been awarded the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) Molecular Epidemiology Research Funding Award, the NCI Merit Award in Cancer Prevention Research Training, and an Award to Advance Research on Cancers in Women from the NCI Office of Science Planning and Assessment and the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. Dr. Gierach serves as DCEG’s representative to the NIH Intramural Program on Research on Women's Health Steering Committee and the NCI Women’s Health Activities Committee, and is an active member of the DENSNP and Marker Of Density (MODE) Consortia on the genetics of mammographic density.
hormonally-related female cancers; breast cancer