Mieke Van Hemelrijck
King’s College London, London UK
Biography
Following an MSc in Biomedical Sciences (2001-2005) and an MSc in Statistical Analysis (2005-2006) at Ghent University, Dr Van Hemelrijck obtained an MSc in Population & International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (2006-2008). In 2010 she finished her PhD in Cancer Epidemiology at King’s College London. Her study findings, published in over 600 news articles to date, had a significant impact on the US Food and Drug Administration safety guidelines for commonly used prostate cancer drugs. In 2012, she was appointed as a Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology at King’s College London, where she now runs the Cancer Epidemiology Group and has several PhD students working on breast cancer using data from Guy’s Hospital (London) and Uppsala University (Sweden).
Abstract
Abstract : A role for lipids and statins in breast cancer risk and prevention?