ISSN: 2578-6512
Program Director
Environmental Epidemiology Branch
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda
United States of America
Dr. Somdat Mahabir is a Program Director in the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program's (EGRP) Environmental Epidemiology Branch (EEB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He obtained his PhD from New York University, MPH from New York Medical College and MS from New York Institute of Technology. He also has a Diploma in Cancer Prevention from the NCI where he did his post-doctoral training in Cancer Epidemiology. Prior to joining EGRP in 2009, Dr. Mahabir was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Mahabir was also a member of the American Cancer Society's (ACS) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) program and the Clinical, Translational, and Population-Based Research Projects review committees at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Before joining the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, he was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at NCI and a Project Director with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Mahabir is the recipient of an NCI Cancer Prevention Research Training Merit Award, NCI Director's Award, CDC/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Honor Award, and academic awards from New York Medical College and New York Institute of Technology. Dr. Mahabir's research interest's include early-life factors and cancer development later in life (childhood and adult cancers), Nutrition, energetics, and other lifestyle factors in cancer epidemiology, Nutraceuticals and cancer, Use of "omics" approaches to understand the links between lifestyle factors and the genome, epigenome, microbiome, and metabolome on cancer prevention, etiology, treatment, and survival, Cancer and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean/Latin America.
