Dr Mark Jenkins




Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology
Melbourne School of Population Health
Level 1, 723 Swanston Street
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
Tel:    +61 3 8344 0902
Fax:    +61 3 9349 5815
Email: m.jenkins@unimelb.edu.au

Biography

Dr Jenkins is a genetic epidemiologist with expertise on the design, conduct, and analysis of studies examining the role of genetic and environmental causes of cancer.  His primary research interests are the inherited risk of bowel and breast cancer in carriers of genetic mutations in cancer genes. He is co-principal investigator on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Registry, part of the international collaboration: The Colon Cancer Family Registry. He is the co-Chair of the Colon Cancer Family Registry Steering Committee. He is investigator of the Australian Breast Cancer Family Registry.  He currently teaches, at postgraduate level, a course in Genetic Epidemiology and coordinates the MPH research projects. He has been a member of both national (NHMRC) and international review panels (NIH-EPIC) and contributes to peer review of national and international journals and funding bodies.

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