Jack Cuzick
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| Thesis | On the Moments of the Number of Curve Crossings by a Stationary Gaussian Process (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome Spanier[1] |
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Jack Cuzick FRS FRCP(hon) (born 11 August 1948) is a British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.[2]
Education and early life
He was born and raised in California, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1970 by the Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D in Mathematics by Claremont Graduate School in 1974.[1]
Research and career
He worked on the mathematical analysis of clinical trial methodology at Columbia University in New York City in the late 1970s and moved to Oxford University in 1978 to work with cancer epidemiologist Richard Doll.
He is involved in the collection and analysis of data for cancer prevention and screening, particularly for breast, cervical and bowel cancers.[3] He is best known for his role conducting the IBIS trials of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors for chemoprevention of breast cancer in women with high risk of developing the disease. For this research, Cuzick's team won Cancer Research UK's Translational Cancer Research Prize in 2014,[4]
Honours and awards
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. [5]
- 2015 Cuzick received the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor.[6]
- 2014 Cancer Research UK Translational Cancer Research Team Prize
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jack Cuzick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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