Gwen A. Murphy
Staff Scientist
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Metabolic Epidem
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Gwen Murphy earned a Ph.D. in clinical medicine from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and an M.P.H. from University College, Dublin in 2006. She joined DCEG as an NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch in 2006, where she worked with Charles Rabkin, Ph.D., to initiate the NCI International Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-Gastric Cancer Consortium. During her fellowship, she also collaborated with Dr. Amanda Cross on a series of molecular epidemiology studies within the Polyp Prevention Trial. In 2009, Dr. Murphy moved to the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch as a research fellow, becoming a staff scientist in 2012
Research Interest
Gastrointestinal Cancer Research
Publications
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Murphy G, Freedman ND, Michel A, Fan JH, Taylor PR, Pawlita M, Qiao YL, Zhang H, Yu K, Abnet CC, Dawsey SM. Prospective study of Helicobacter pylori antigens and gastric noncardia cancer risk in the nutrition intervention trial cohort. International journal of cancer. 2015 Oct 15;137(8):1938-46.
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Murphy G, Devesa SS, Cross AJ, Inskip PD, McGlynn KA, Cook MB. Sex disparities in colorectal cancer incidence by anatomic subsite, race and age. International journal of cancer. 2011 Apr 1;128(7):1668-75.
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Murphy G, Michel A, Taylor PR, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Virtamo J, Parisi D, Snyder K, Butt J, McGlynn KA, Koshiol J. Association of seropositivity to Helicobacter species and biliary tract cancer in the ATBC study. Hepatology. 2014 Dec 1;60(6):1963-71.
