Stephanie J. Weinstein
Born
Stephanie Joan Weinstein

1967 (age 56–57)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materTufts University
Cornell University
Scientific career
FieldsNutrition, cancer epidemiology, one-carbon metabolism
InstitutionsNational Cancer Institute

Stephanie Joan Weinstein (born 1967) is an American nutritionist and cancer epidemiologist who is a staff scientist in the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches diet and cancer associations with a with a focus on vitamin D, vitamin E, and one-carbon metabolism. Weinstein was formerly an environmental toxicologist at a consulting firm.

Life

Weinstein was born 1967 in Boston.[1] She graduated from Andover High School.[1] She received a B.S. in biology from Tufts University.[2] After completing her undergraduate studies, Weinstein was an environmental toxicologist at the Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, Inc. consulting firm in Washington, D.C.[1]

Weinstein earned a M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in nutrition from Cornell University.[2] Her master's thesis was titled, Hispanics in metropolitan New York: perceptions and practices related to seafood.[3] Weinstein's dissertation focused on one-carbon metabolism and cervical cancer. It was titled, Serum and red blood cell folate levels in relation to invasive cervical cancer risk in a multicenter case-control study of United States women.[1] Carole Bisogni was her doctoral advisor.[1] Weinstein's research was influenced by mentor Regina G. Ziegler.[1]

Weinstein was a postdoctoral fellow in the nutritional epidemiology branch (NEB), division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), for three years.[2] After working for one year as a nutritionist in the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, she returned to NCI as a staff scientist in NEB in 2002.[2] She works in the metabolic epidemiology branch.[2] Weinstein publishes on diet and cancer associations, with a focus on vitamin D, vitamin E, and one-carbon metabolism.[2] She manages the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study, a prospective cohort study that began as a clinical trial.[2] Weinstein works with the data coordinating center for the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study, a prospective cohort of 200,000 adults in the United States.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Weinstein, Stephanie Joan (1998). Serum and red blood cell folate levels in relation to invasive cervical cancer risk in a multicenter case-control study of United States women (Ph.D. thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 841778505.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Stephanie Weinstein, Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2022-10-16.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ Weinstein, Stephanie Joan (1995). Hispanics in metropolitan New York: perceptions and practices related to seafood (M.S. thesis). Cornell University. OCLC 693102882.
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