Aflatoxin, HBV and Liver Cancer

John Groopman, PhD, will be leading a seminar titled “Aflatoxin, HBV and Liver Cancer the 2nd Leading Cause of Global Cancer Mortality.”

Dr. John Groopman is the Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventative Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health and the Associate Director for Population Sciences at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in the School of Medicine. He received his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was also a post-doctoral fellow at MIT.  He received further training as a staff fellow at the National Cancer Institute in the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins in 1989, Dr. Groopman was the Associate Dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Groopman’s main research interests involve the development and application of molecular biomarkers of exposure, dose and effect from environmental carcinogens. The environmental carcinogens studied include agents that are naturally occurring in the diet. A major emphasis of the research has been in the elucidation of the role of aflatoxins, a common contaminate of the food supply, in the induction of liver cancer in high-risk populations living in Asia and Africa.