DR. DALE SANDLER
Dr. Sandler is the Principal Investigator of the Sister Study and the Early Life Exposures Study.
Dr. Sandler received her M.P.H. from Yale University School of Medicine in 1975, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1979. Dr. Sandler is Chief of the Epidemiology Branch at NIEHS. She studies environmental causes of chronic disease in adults. Dr. Sandler’s research has looked at risk factors for leukemia and kidney disease, health effects of residential and occupational exposure to radon, and the health consequences of exposure to cigarette smoke and agricultural chemicals.
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DR. AIMEE D'ALOISIO
Dr. D’Aloisio is the Lead Associate Investigator of the Early Life Exposures Study.
Dr. D’Aloisio is a postdoctoral fellow in the Epidemiology Branch of NIEHS. She received her MS in Epidemiology in 2002 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. Dr. D'Aloisio's research interests focus on women’s health, specifically factors related to pathogenesis of uterine fibroids and reproductive cancers.
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DR.
LISA DEROO
Dr. DeRoo is the Lead Investigator of the Sister Study and an Associate Investigator of the Early Life Exposures Study.
Dr. DeRoo is a Staff Scientist with NIEHS and serves as an epidemiologist for the Sister Study. She earned her M.P.H. in International Health from Emory University, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Her doctoral research focused on cigarette smoking during pregnancy and the risk of breast cancer. Before joining NIEHS in 2006, Dr. DeRoo was a visiting fellow at the Division of Epidemiology, University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she studied risk factors for breast cancer among Geneva women.
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DR. CLARICE WEINBERG
Dr. Weinberg is a Co-Investigator of the Sister Study and an Associate Investigator of the Early Life Exposures Study.
Dr. Weinberg received her M.A. in Mathematics in 1974 from Brandeis University, and her Ph.D. in Biomathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1980. Dr. Weinberg is Chief of the Biostatistics branch at NIEHS. Dr. Weinberg is interested in assessing genetic effects and developing better designs and methods of analysis to help understand the joint role of genetics and environmental exposures in causing disease.
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DR. PAULA SCARBOROUGH JURAS
Dr. Juras is the NIEHS Project Officer for the Sister Study and the Early Life Exposures Study and provides scientific and operational leadership for both studies.
Dr. Juras is a Specialist with NIEHS. She earned a BA in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida. Her dissertation research centered on an indicator of breast cancer prognosis; and her graduate research, as a whole, contributed directly to the development of protease inhibitor therapeutics for persons living with HIV. Afterward, Dr. Juras was a research associate with Duke University Medical Center, and then went on to accept a research award fellowship with the NIEHS, where she studied lung disorders associated with some breast cancer treatments. Dr. Juras joined the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch in 1999.
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