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Sonja Berndt

Senior Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Occupational and
National Cancer Institute
United States of America

Scientist Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Berndt received a Pharm.D. from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. She joined DCEG in 2003 as a pre-doctoral fellow, becoming a post-doctoral fellow in 2006 within the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch. In 2009, Dr. Berndt was appointed to the position of tenure-track investigator. She was awarded scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in March 2017. She has received several awards for her work, including an NCI Intramural Research Award, NCI Director’s Career Development Award, and several DCEG and NIH Fellowship Achievement awards for excellence in research

Research Intrest

Genetic epidemiology of anthropometric traits; Prostate Cancer; Colorectal Cancer; Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

List of Publications
Berndt SI, Sampson J, Yeager M, Jacobs KB, Wang Z, Hutchinson A, Chung C, Orr N, Wacholder S, Chatterjee N, Yu K. Large-scale fine mapping of the HNF1B locus and prostate cancer risk. Human molecular genetics. 2011 May 16;20(16):3322-9.
Chang CM, Chia VM, Gunter MJ, Zanetti KA, Ryan BM, Goodman JE, Harris CC, Weissfeld J, Huang WY, Chanock S, Yeager M. Innate immunity gene polymorphisms and the risk of colorectal neoplasia. Carcinogenesis. 2013 Jun 26;34(11):2512-20.
Berndt SI, Huang WY, Chatterjee N, Yeager M, Welch R, Chanock SJ, Weissfeld JL, Schoen RE, Hayes RB. Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFB1) gene polymorphisms and risk of advanced colorectal adenoma. Carcinogenesis. 2007 Jul 5;28(9):1965-70.

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