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Roxana Moslehi
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Moslehi at the east campus of the University at Albany
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Iran
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| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Albany |
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Roxana Moslehi (Persian: رکسانا مصلحی) is an Iranian-born genetic epidemiologist.
Her research is on cancer and cancer precursors, including work on radiation-induced cancer of the eyes, genetic and environmental causes of ovarian cancer, and ethnic differences in breast cancer incidence. She also conducts molecular epidemiologic and genomic studies of other diseases such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and gestational complications. She is an associate professor in epidemiology and biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University at Albany.
Education and career
Moslehi received her B.Sc. with honors, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia; her 2000 Ph.D. was supervised by J.M. Friedman and Steven Narod. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, under the supervision of Mitchell Gail, and while there she received an adjunct assistant professor position at George Washington University. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Albany.
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