Our research in France is shown below
Current Research Grants
Dr Mazda Jenab
Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Section of Nutrition and Metabolism
International Agency for Research on Cancer [IARC-WHO]
The World Health Organization
Lyon, France
Project 1 title: Dietary, Lifestyle and Genetic Determinants of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in three populations of the Jammu and Kashmir Region of Northern India - A Feasibility Study (2008/SD07)
Study population 1: Up to 50 case-control pairs of subjects from the Jammu and Kashmir regions of Northern India.
Project 2 title: Pathways to Colorectal Cancer: Do excess energy consumption and the processes of oxidative stress interact and are they modulated by increased colonic permeability, inflammation, endotoxin exposure and toxic by-products of excess energy consumption? (2010/251)
Project 3 title: A pathway approach to study the biological effects of vitamin D on colorectal carcinogenesis: Exploration of gene-nutrient, gene-environment and gene-gene interactions (2011/443)
Study population 2 and 3: This study will use 1500 cases and 1500 matched controls nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), a multicentre study of approximately 500,000 participants from 10 European countries.
Dr Paul Brennan
Group of Genetic Epidemiology, Section of Genetics
International Agency for Research on Cancer [IARC-WHO]
The World Health Organization
Lyon, France
Project 1 title: Evaluating the protective effect of folate against lung cancer in a large European prospective study (2007/16)
Project 2 title: Evaluating the effects of B- and D-vitamins in renal cell cancer in two large European prospective studies (R2010/254)
Study Population for projects 1 and 2: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). This is a multicentre study of approximately 500,000 participants from 10 European countries.
Dr Sabina Rinaldi
Nutritional and Database Resource Team, Epidemiology Methods and Support Group, WHO
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Lyon, France
Project title: Role of obesity and thyroid hormones in the aetiology of differentiated thyroid carcinomas (2009/92)
Study Population: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). This is a multicentre study of approximately 500,000 participants from 10 European countries.
Dr Nadia Slimani
Dept of Biostatistic and Epidemiology, WHO
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Lyon, France
Project title: Biomarkers of industrial trans fatty acids and breast cancer risk within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. (2009/90)
Study Population: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) [link to http://epic.iarc.fr/]. This is a multicentre study of approximately 500,000 participants from 10 European countries.
