Stephanie J. Weinstein | |
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Born | Stephanie Joan Weinstein 1967 (age 56–57) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Tufts University Cornell University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nutrition, cancer epidemiology, one-carbon metabolism |
Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
Stephanie Joan Weinstein (born 1967) is an American nutritionist and cancer epidemiologist who is a staff scientist in the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches diet and cancer associations with a focus on vitamin D, vitamin E, and one-carbon metabolism. Weinstein was formerly an environmental toxicologist at a consulting firm.
Life
Weinstein was born 1967 in Boston. She graduated from Andover High School. She received a B.S. in biology from Tufts University. After completing her undergraduate studies, Weinstein was an environmental toxicologist at the Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, Inc. consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
Weinstein earned a M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in nutrition from Cornell University. Her master's thesis was titled, Hispanics in metropolitan New York: perceptions and practices related to seafood. Weinstein's dissertation focused on one-carbon metabolism and cervical cancer. It was titled, Serum and red blood cell folate levels in relation to invasive cervical cancer risk in a multicenter case-control study of United States women. Carole Bisogni was her doctoral advisor. Weinstein's research was influenced by mentor Regina G. Ziegler.
Weinstein was a postdoctoral fellow in the nutritional epidemiology branch (NEB), division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), for three years. After working for one year as a nutritionist in the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, she returned to NCI as a staff scientist in NEB in 2002. She works in the metabolic epidemiology branch. Weinstein publishes on diet and cancer associations, with a focus on vitamin D, vitamin E, and one-carbon metabolism. She manages the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study, a prospective cohort study that began as a clinical trial. Weinstein works with the data coordinating center for the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study, a prospective cohort of 200,000 adults in the United States.
References
- ^ Weinstein, Stephanie Joan (1998). Serum and red blood cell folate levels in relation to invasive cervical cancer risk in a multicenter case-control study of United States women (Ph.D. thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 841778505.
- ^ "Stephanie Weinstein, Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2022-10-16. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Weinstein, Stephanie Joan (1995). Hispanics in metropolitan New York: perceptions and practices related to seafood (M.S. thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 693102882.
- Living people
- 1967 births
- Scientists from Boston
- Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- National Institutes of Health people
- Cancer epidemiologists
- American women epidemiologists
- American epidemiologists
- American women nutritionists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- American toxicologists