Sonja Berndt | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cancer epidemiology |
| Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Kathy J. Helzlsouer |
Sonja Ingrid Berndt is an American pharmacologist and cancer epidemiologist who researches non-Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate cancer, and anthropometric traits that are cancer risk factors. She is a senior investigator in the occupational and environmental epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Berndt was born to Helen and Bruce Berndt.[1] She was raised with two sisters.[1] She earned a B.A. in English with honors from Dartmouth College in 1994.[1] Berndt completed pre-pharmacy curriculum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1995.[1] She received a Pharm.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in 1999.[1] From 1999 to 2000, she was a pharmacy practice resident and clinical instructor at the University of Michigan Medical Center.[1] In 2000, Berndt enrolled in the Ph.D. program in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] She joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) in 2003 as a pre-doctoral fellow.[2] Berndt completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2006.[1] Her dissertation was titled, Genetic polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and the risk of colorectal neoplasia.[1] Kathy J. Helzlsouer was her doctoral advisor and Richard B. Hayes was her mentor at NCI.[1] She became a post-doctoral fellow in 2006 within the NCI occupational and environmental epidemiology branch.[2]
In 2009, Berndt was appointed to the position of tenure-track investigator at the NCI. She was awarded scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in March 2017.[2] Berndt’s research focuses on the genetic and molecular etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and prostate cancer, as well as anthropometric traits that are known risk factors for cancer. She uses statistics to investigate underlying risk factors for cancer.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Berndt, Sonja Ingrid (2006). Genetic polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and the risk of colorectal neoplasia (Ph.D. thesis). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. OCLC 85370113. ProQuest 305319194.
- 1 2 3 "Sonja Berndt, Pharm.D., Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 1980-01-01. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
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