Summary
Professor Cross is a cancer epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College. She is also the Head of the Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Group (http://csprg.org.uk) in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial.
She completed her PhD at Cambridge University and then obtained a post-doctoral fellowship within the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States. After two years of post-doctoral research, Dr. Cross was awarded a research fellowship and shortly after became a tenure-track investigator at NCI. During her time as an investigator at NCI, she was also a mentor for the Yale University– NCI Partnership Training Program and held the position of Assistant Professor Adjunct within the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Cross received the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, the DCEG Fellowship Achievement Award for Outstanding Accomplishments, the DCEG Award for Outstanding Research Paper by a Fellow, the NCI Mentor of Merit Award, and the NIH Merit Award for Leadership of an Innovative Multidisciplinary Research Program.
Between 2005 and 2013, Dr. Cross was Principal Investigator of two colonoscopy screening studies (the Polyp Prevention Trial and the CONCeRN study), a metabolomics initiative within DCEG, and she was also one of the Principal Investigators of the U.S. Polyp Pooling Project. In 2013, Dr. Cross joined Imperial College to pursue her research interests in gastrointestinal malignancies and etiologic studies of lifestyle factors and cancer risk.
Publications
Journals
Pearson-Stuttard J, Bennett J, Cheng Y, et al. , 2021, Trends in predominant causes of death in those with and without diabetes in England from 2001 to 2018, The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Vol:9, ISSN:2213-8595, Pages:165-173
Pearson-Stuttard J, Bennett J, Vamos E, et al. , 2021, Trends in predominant causes of death in individuals with and without diabetes in England from 2001 to 2018: an epidemiological analysis of linked primary care records, The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Vol:9, ISSN:2213-8595, Pages:165-173
Huyghe JR, Harrison TA, Bien SA, et al. , 2021, Genetic architectures of proximal and distal colorectal cancer are partly distinct., Gut
Jayasekara H, MacInnis RJ, Lujan-Barroso L, et al. , 2021, Lifetime alcohol intake, drinking patterns over time and risk of stomach cancer: A pooled analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies., Int J Cancer
Brenner H, Cross AJ, 2021, Merits, Challenges, and Limitations of Randomized Trials on Colorectal Cancer Screening Effectiveness., Gastroenterology