Demetrius Albanes
Senior Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Metabolic Epidem
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Albanes received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin. After completing his internship at the University of California, Irvine, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), through which he began working in the cancer prevention program of the NCI in 1982. Thereafter, Dr. Albanes completed a preventive medicine residency with the CDC and continued his research in the Cancer Prevention Studies Branch of NCI from 1984 to 1990, when he became a tenured senior investigator. He was awarded the Public Health Service Commendation Medal in 1992 for his research and leadership in the Alpha-Tocopherol Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study, and joined the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in 2000 as a senior investigator in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, and served as Chief of the Office of Education until 2008.
Research Interest
biochemical/molecular Cancer; lung, colorectal and other cancers
Publications
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Hartman TJ, Woodson K, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Virtamo J, Selhub J, Barrett MJ, Albanes D. Association of the B-vitamins pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (B6), B12, and folate with lung cancer risk in older men. American journal of epidemiology. 2001 Apr 1;153(7):688-94.
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Qin J, Zhang H, Li P, Albanes D, Yu K. Using covariate-specific disease prevalence information to increase the power of case-control studies. Biometrika. 2014 Dec 2;102(1):169-80.
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Hartman TJ, Dorgan JF, Woodson K, Virtamo J, Tangrea JA, Heinonen OP, Taylor PR, Barrett MJ, Albanes D. Effects of long‐term α‐tocopherol supplementation on serum hormones in older men. The Prostate. 2001 Jan 1;46(1):33-8.
