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Professor Jing Ma from Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School joins the advisory board of HMS-CSSA
(5/6/2011)
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Dear All,
It is our great privilege to announce that Professor Jing Ma from Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School has recently agreed to join the advisory board of HMS-CSSA.
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Prof. Ma (left) and Dr. Baoli Hu (President of HMS-CSSA)
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Prof. Ma was graduated from Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China. She studies epidemiology of chronic diseases at the University of Minnesota and obtained PhD in 1993. Prof. Ma started her career at Harvard Medical School in 1994 as a research associate and became as a faculty at the HMS in 1997. Prof. Ma has been studying biomarkers and chronic disease for over 20 years and her current focus is on biomarker and cancer research in the Harvard cohorts. Biologic samples have been collected in these cohort studies at baseline in the early 1980s and 1990s and then repeatedly among some of these participants 10 years later. Incidence and fatal outcomes have been closely followed up to the present date. Using a nested case-control design, we analyzed a variety of markers ranging from growth factors, metabolic factors, hormonal factors, and nutritional biomarkers to genetic polymorphisms and linked them to subsequent risk of cancer incidence and progression. Prof. Ma teaches "Cancer Prevention" cause at the Harvard School of Public Health and serves as grant reviewer for many study section panels of the NIH, Department of Defense, and as associate editor for the journal of Cancer Causes & Control. Prof. Ma is an active investigator in the NIH Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3), a multi-collaborative research project on genetics and cancer involving the resources of twelve large prospective cohorts from the US, Europe and Australia. Prof. Ma is also a project leader of the study of "Energetic factors, lethal prostate cancer, and survivorship" in the newly funded Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Center. This center is designed to increase the understanding of the determinants of obesity from the molecular to societal level and across the lifespan, to clarify the biological links of obesity with cancer risk and survivorship. Prof. Ma published 136 scientific papers in major journals.
We are looking forward to working with Prof. Ma in the future.
Cheers
HMS-CSSA
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