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Hwayoung NOH PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology

Course and current status

Education

• Ph.D. (2013): Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul National University, Korea
  Thesis: The relationship among zinc nutritional status, αENaC A663T gene polymorphism and salty taste acuity in Korean young adults (Advisor: Prof. Hee Young Paik)

• M.Sc. (2008): Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul National University, Korea
  Thesis: Associations of long-term dietary patterns with changes in body composition in Korean early adolescent girls (Advisor: Prof. Hee Young Paik)

• B.S.(2006): Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul National University, Korea
  Graduated with honors

Professional Experiences

• Oct.2020~Present: Researcher in Nutritional Epidemiology, Department of Cancer Prevention and Environment, INSERM U1296: Radiation Defense, Health, Environment, Centre Léon Bérard (CLB), Lyon, France

• Feb.2020~Sep.2020: Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Cancer Prevention and Environment, Centre Léon Bérard (CLB), Lyon, France

• Jul. 2016~Dec. 2019: Postdoctoral Scientist, Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – World Health Organization (WHO), Lyon, France

• Jan.2014~Jun.2016: Postdoctoral Scientist, Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – World Health Organization (WHO), Lyon, France

Main Publications (last 3 years) 

1)     Jang HH, Noh H, Kim G, Cho SY, Kim HJ, Choe JS, Kim J, Scalbert A, Gunter MJ, Kwon O, Kim H. Differences in dietary patterns related to metabolic health by gut microbial enterotypes of Korean adults, Front Nutr. 2023; 6;9:1045397. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.1045397. 

2)     Charvat H, Freisling H, Noh H, Gaudet MM, Gunter MJ,…, Weiderpass E, Soerjomataram I, Arnold M., Excess Body Fatness during Early to Mid-Adulthood and Survival from Colorectal and Breast Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of Five International Cohort Studies, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022; 31(2): 325-333

3)     Noh H, Jang H-H, Kim G, Zouiouich S,…, Gunter M.J., Ferrari P., Scalbert A., Freisling H., Taxonomic Composition and Diversity of the Gut Microbiota in Relation to Habitual Dietary Intake in Korean Adults, Nutrients, 2021;13(2):366

4)     Jang H-H^†, Noh H^†, et al. Metabolic tracking of isoflavones in soybean products and biosamples from healthy adults after fermented soybean consumption, Food Chemistry, 2020; 330; 127317 †These authors equally contributed to this work

5)     Noh H, Charvat H, Freisling H, Ólafsdóttir GH, Ólafsdóttir EJ, Tryggvadóttir L, Arnold M, Soerjomataram I., Cumulative exposure to premenopausal obesity and risk of postmenopausal cancer: A population-based study in Icelandic women., Int. J. Cancer., 2020 Aug 1;147(3):793-802.

Scientific summary

My main research interests are focused on understanding associations between lifestyle (e.g. diet, physical activity, obesity) with cancer and other metabolic diseases in epidemiology and clinical studies, using various biostatistical techniques for high-dimensional and longitudinal data, within the context of international collaboration. 

Recent Projects

• 2020~2022: "Effect of diet-gut microbiota interactions on the human metabolome and health parameters in Korean adults”, in collaboration with IARC-WHO and Korean Research institutes (National Cancer Center Korea and National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) [Co-Project Investigator]  

• 2021~2026: “a national, multicenter, phase III randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a one-year supervised physical activity program to reduce long-term cancer-related fatigue in metastatic testicular germ cell tumor patients: STARTER” [Team leader of the gut microbiota study within the STARTER project] 

• 2022~2025: “Cancer risk associated with physical activity and sedentary behaviour and the role of cardiometabolic disease and socio-economic position: CAPACITY” [Project Investigator]