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Tanya Agurs-Collins, PhD, RD
Program Director/Nutritionist
Health Promotion Research Branch
Behavioral Research Program
Tanya Agurs-Collins, Ph.D. has been a Program Director/Nutritionist at the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Behavioral Research Program, Health Promotion Research Branch since October 2004. Before joining NCI, Dr. Agurs-Collins was an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Howard University College of Medicine and nutritional epidemiologist at the Howard University Cancer Center in Washington, DC (1995-2004). During that time, Dr. Agurs-Collins conducted research in the areas of sex steroid hormones, growth hormones, nutrition, physical activity, over weight/obesity in breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer risk.
Dr. Agurs-Collins received her Ph.D. in Nutrition with an epidemiology, gerontology, and behavior focus from the Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Her research interests include sex steroid hormones, IGF-1, diet, obesity, and cancer risk in ethnic/minority populations; gene-environment-behavior interactions and obesity/cancer risk.
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