Lindsay Morton
Senior Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Radiation Epidem
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Morton received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University with a focus on cancer epidemiology. She then joined DCEG’s Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch as a Postdoctoral Fellow and became a Research Fellow. During her doctoral and postdoctoral training concentrated in molecular epidemiology, she focused her research on understanding the causes of lymphoid neoplasms. In 2008, Dr. Morton joined the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) as a tenure-track investigator. She expanded her research to the study of multiple primary cancers, evaluating the carcinogenic effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as other environmental and genetic risk factors for second cancers. In 2015, Dr. Morton was awarded scientific tenure by NIH. Dr. Morton has been recognized for her research contributions with the NCI Career Development Innovation Award, the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, and the Lymphoma Foundation of America’s Young Scientist Award.
Research Interest
Second cancers; Etiology of lymphoid neoplasms
Publications
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Morton LM, Wang SS, Cozen W, Linet MS, Chatterjee N, Davis S, Severson RK, Colt JS, Vasef MA, Rothman N, Blair A. Etiologic heterogeneity among non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes. Blood. 2008 Sep 16.
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Landgren AM, Landgren O, Gridley G, Dores GM, Linet MS, Morton LM. Autoimmune disease and subsequent risk of developing alimentary tract cancers among 4.5 million US male veterans. Cancer. 2011 Mar 15;117(6):1163-71.
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Morton LM, Cahill J, Hartge P. Reporting participation in epidemiologic studies: a survey of practice. American journal of epidemiology. 2005 Dec 7;163(3):197-203.
