Meredith Shiels

Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Infections and Immunoepidem
National Cancer Institute
United States of America

Scientist Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Meredith Shiels earned her M.H.S. and Ph.D. in cancer epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch (IIB) as a Cancer Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow in 2009. She was awarded the Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research that same year. In 2016 Dr. Shiels became a tenure-track investigator in IIB.

Research Intrest

"Cancer Incidence and Mortality Trends; Smoking and Tobacco "

List of Publications
Shiels MS, Engels EA, Shi J, Landi MT, Albanes D, Chatterjee N, Chanock SJ, Caporaso NE, Chaturvedi AK. Genetic variation in innate immunity and inflammation pathways associated with lung cancer risk. Cancer. 2012 Nov 15;118(22):5630-6.
Shiels MS, Engels EA. Increased risk of histologically defined cancer subtypes in human immunodeficiency virus–infected individuals. Cancer. 2012 Oct 1;118(19):4869-76.
Shiels MS, Pfeiffer RM, Engels EA. Age at cancer diagnosis among persons with AIDS in the United States. Annals of internal medicine. 2010 Oct 5;153(7):452-60.

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