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AMINA AMADOU PhD in Cancer Epidemiology

Course and current status

Education

Ph.D - Epidemiology-Oncology, 2010-2013, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Medical Faculty

M.Sc - Public Health-Epidemiology, 2009-2010, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1- Medical Faculty

M.Sc - Microbiology-Ecology, 2008-2009, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1- Science Faculty

Current Position

Since 2022- Researcher: Prevention Cancer Environment Department, Comprehensive Cancer Center Léon Bérard, INSERM U1296 Radiations: Defense, Health & Environment

Previous positions

2018-2021 - Postdoctoral Researcher on environmental epidemiology: Prevention Cancer Environment Department, Comprehensive Cancer Center Léon Bérard, headed by Pr Béatrice Fervers

2015-2017- Postdoctoral Researcher on molecular & biomarkers epidemiology: Team of Tumor Molecular Pathology and Biomarkers, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, headed by Pr Pierre Hainaut

2014-2015- Postdoctoral Researcher on nutritional epidemiology: Team of Nutritional Epidemiology (International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC /WHO), supervised by Dr Isabelle Romieu 

2010-2013 - Doctoral studies - Team of Nutritional Epidemiology (International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC /WHO) (Lyon, France), supervised by Dr Isabelle Romieu & Dr Pierre Hainaut. PhD Thesis on " anthropometry and hormone therapy risk factors associted with breast cancer risk”

Members

Membre of the National Nutrition Cancer Research Network (NACRe)

Membre of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE-Africa)

Membre of the international P53 workshop

Scientific summary

My research lies in the fields of environmental, lifestyle and cancer epidemiology. I also have a strong interest in the field of molecular epidemiology research. I’m currently working on studies on environmental factors and risk of cancers, particularly air pollution and breast cancer risk.

Main research topics :

-       Impact of environnemental air pollutants on cancer risk

-       Impact of dietary pollutants on cancer risk

-       Impact of body-shape phenotypes of multiple anthropometric traits on cancer incidence

-       Estimating the health effects of multi-pollutant mixtures in the context of highly correlated exposures, using new multipollutants approaches

-       Investigating the role of biomarkers of metabolic health, using mediation analysis methodology