Dr. Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon is a Senior Investigator in the Metabolomics Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health. She has a B.S. in nutrition and dietetics from the University of California, Davis, and completed a dietetic internship and M.Ed. in health science (nutrition) education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and George Peabody School of Education, respectively. After this training, she worked as a registered dietitian for 10 years. Subsequently, she completed an M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Stolzenberg-Solomon joined the NCI in 1996 as a predoctoral fellow and continued post-doctoral training in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. She began tenure-track in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch in 2002 and achieved tenure in 2011.
She has developed and led a multidisciplinary research program that primarily focuses on elucidating the etiology of pancreatic cancer. She has examined dietary, other lifestyle, genetic, and infectious factors, including biomarkers that may help reveal underlying mechanisms of carcinogenesis. In addition to her major work on pancreatic cancer, she has pursued, on a limited basis, other nutrition-related hypotheses including biomarkers in nutritional intervention studies.
She has won several awards in recognition of her contributions to cancer research, including the 2008 NIH Merit Award for sustained and innovative work in elucidating nutritional, genetic, infectious, and other determinants of pancreatic cancer. She has served on several federal government advisory committees related to pancreatic cancer and is an active mentor, working with graduate students, as well as post-doctoral fellows. She serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. She also holds a position as an adjunct Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Public Health, is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society.