Rashmi Sinha is a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist who researches diets, cancer risk, and the microbiome. She is a senior investigator in the metabolic epidemiology branch of the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. T ...

Life

Sinha received a B.S. with honors and M.Sc. in biochemistry from the

University of Stirling The University of Stirling (, gd, Oilthigh Shruighlea (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built ...

. She earned a Ph.D. in nutritional sciences from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

. Her 1986 dissertation was titled, ''Age, nutrition, and bone metabolism: analyses of effects using a short-term in vivo bone model''. She began work at the

(NCI) in the laboratory of cellular carcinogenesis and tumor promotion in 1987. She was selected as a cancer prevention research fellow in 1990, and later joined the NCI division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) in 1992. Sinha was one of the founding members of the steering committee of the Molecular Epidemiology Group of the

American Association for Cancer Research The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research. Based in Philadelphia, the AACR focuses on all aspects of cancer research, including basic, clinical, and tr ...

from 1997 to 1998, and of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Group of the

American Society of Nutritional Sciences The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is an American society for professional researchers and practitioners in the field of nutrition. ASN publishes four journals in the field of nutrition. It has been criticized for its financial ties to the ...

from 1998 to 2000. Sinha was promoted to senior investigator in 2001 and co-principal investigator of the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U ...

AARP AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons) is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty. The organization said it had more than 38 million members in 2018. The magazi ...

Diet and Health Study. She served for many years as deputy chief of the nutritional epidemiology branch. She is a senior investigator in the metabolic epidemiology branch. Sinha conducts interdisciplinary research to elucidate the dietary exposures and biological mechanisms associated with cancer risk, including the role of the microbiome.

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