Jackilen Shannon, PhD
- Email:
- shannoja@ohsu.edu
- Position:
- Scientist, CROET
- Associate Professor in PHPM, SOM
- Office:
- CROET 1501
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Research Interests
The primary focus of Dr. Shannon's work has been to unveil the nutritional factors that promote the
development and progression of human prostate cancer. In 2003, Dr. Shannon received funding for
an NCI Career Transition Development Award. This non-mentored award is designed to support the
development of new investigators in cancer prevention. Dr. Shannon's stated research focus is on
fatty acids and prostate cancer prevention, with a primary focus on the use of molecular
epidemiologic methods. This particular award has supported her on-going case-control study of
dietary and red cell w-3 fatty acids and inflammatory mediators in prostate cancer risk. Dr. Shannon
has also received funding through a Department of Defense Idea grant to support a placebo-
controlled trial of the effect of fish oil supplementation on prostate tissue FAS expression in biopsy
negative men undergoing repeat prostate biopsy.
Biography
Dr. Jackilen Shannon is a nutritional epidemiologist with a strong track record of investigation in the role of diet and nutrition in carcinogenesis. She joined Oregon Health and Science University in 2000. She completed a doctoral degree program in Nutrition with a minor in Epidemiology at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an NIH-NCI post-doctoral training fellowship in cancer epidemiology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
