NewsCenter

UB Expert

Jo Freudenheim

Expertise:

• Nutritional epidemiology; lifestyle and envirnonmental factors and their relationship to various types of cancer

Freudenheim is an increasingly prominent nutritional epidemiologist and an expert on the relationship between diet, environment and various types of cancer. Heading a five-year study on the effect of various lifestyle factors on the risk of lung cancer, funded by the NIH. Also principal researcher on a $1.6 million federal grant to study the relationship between alcohol consumption and breast cancer, and a $457,000 grant to study early exposure to carcinogens and risk of breast cancer. Studies on the protective effect of having been breast-fed and of consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables on breast cance risk garnered wide attention. Also studying the effect of environmental factors, such as PCBs, DDT and mirex, on breast-cancer risk, and has studied diet and colorectal cancer. Great with media; good for background information on nutrition, as well as specifics.