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Roxana Moslehi
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Moslehi at the east campus of the University at Albany in 2010
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| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Iran
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| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Albany |
| Thesis | Genetic studies of ovarian cancer in Jewish women (2000) |
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Roxana Moslehi (Persian: رکسانا مصلحی) is an Iranian-born genetic epidemiologist.
Her research is on cancer and cancer precursors, including work on radiation-induced cancer of the eyes, and ethnic differences in breast cancer incidence. Born in Iran and raised there and in Canada, she is an associate professor in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University at Albany in New York state.
Education and career
Moslehi received her Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia; her 2000 PhD was supervised by J. M. Friedman and Steven Narod. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics before taking her present position at the University of Albany.
Selected publications
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