María Constanza Camargo
María Constanza Camargo Bohórquez is a Colombian cancer epidemiologist who researches the Epstein–Barr virus and gastric carcinogenesis. She is an investigator in the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
[edit]Camargo was born to Aracely and Efrain.[1] She completed a B.Sc. in bacteriology from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in 1992.[1] She completed a M.H.A degree from the Pontifical Xavierian University in 1997.[2] In 2002, Camargo earned an M.Sc. in epidemiology from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública .[2] She was a member of the research group led by Pelayo Correa, first at Louisiana State University and then at Vanderbilt University, studying gastric cancer and its primary risk factor, Helicobacter pylori infection.[2][1] In 2010, Camargo received a Ph.D. in public health with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Illinois Chicago.[2] Her dissertation was titled The role of EBV in gastric carcinogenesis epidemiologic modeling and molecular investigations.[1] Garth Rauscher was her doctoral advisor.[1] She conducted her dissertation work at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) infections and immunoepidemiology branch (IIB) on the role of Epstein–Barr virus infection in gastric carcinogenesis.[2] She joined IIB as a postdoctoral fellow in 2010 and became an Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the metabolic epidemiology branch (MEB) in 2016.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Camargo, Maria (2010). The role of EBV in gastric carcinogenesis epidemiologic modeling and molecular investigations (Ph.D. thesis). University of Illinois at Chicago, Health Sciences Center. ISBN 978-1-124-30894-4. OCLC 7069218870.
- ^ a b c d e f "Maria Constanza Camargo, Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2022-10-26. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Maria Constanza Camargo, Ph.D. | Principal Investigators | NIH Intramural Research Program". irp.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- Living people
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana alumni
- University of Illinois Chicago alumni
- National Institutes of Health people
- 21st-century Colombian women scientists
- 21st-century Colombian scientists
- Colombian medical researchers
- Colombian epidemiologists
- Women epidemiologists
- Cancer epidemiologists
- Colombian emigrants to the United States
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- 21st-century American women civil servants