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Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer

The Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP) is an international consortium of cohort studies working together to evaluate comprehensively how dietary factors, body size measurements, and other modifiable factors are associated with the risk of cancer and more recently other chronic diseases and mortality.

Location

665 Huntington Avenue 
Building 2
Boston, MA 02115 

Who We Are

Principal Investigator and Administrative Staff

Stephanie Smith-Warner (Overall leader, Principal Investigator)
Amelia Zhang (Project Coordinator)

DCPP Team and Project Leaders

Molin Wang, Senior Statistician, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Sherry Yaun, DCPP analyst, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tao Hou, DCPP analyst, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leaders of alcohol and cancer project: Pietro Ferrari, IARC; Stephanie Smith-Warner, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leader of population attributable fraction and cancer project: Robert MacInnis, Cancer Council Victoria

Leader of bladder cancer project: Roger Milne, Cancer Council Victoria

Leader of breast cancer projects: Stephanie Smith-Warner, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leaders of breast cancer familial risk projects: Robert MacInnis, Cancer Council Victoria; Jeanine Genkinger, Columbia University

Leaders of colorectal cancer familial risk projects: Jeanine Genkinger, Columbia University; Robert MacInnis, Cancer Council Victoria

Leader of meat and coronary heart disease project: Walter Willett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leader of esophageal cancer project: Harindra Jayasekara, Cancer Council Victoria

Leader of exceptional longevity project: Stephanie Smith-Warner, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leader of coffee and mortality project: Erikka Loftfield, National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute 

Leader of neuroendocrine tumor project: Rachel van Leeuwaarde, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht

Leader of non-Hodgkin lymphoma project: Brenda Birmann, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Leader of lifestyle and pancreatic cancer project: Jeanine Genkinger, Columbia University

Leader of lifestyle and pancreatic cancer subtype project: Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute

Leader of population attributable fraction of pancreatic cancer project: Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute

Leader of stomach cancer project: Harindra Jayasekara, Cancer Council Victoria