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Professor Cross is a cancer epidemiologist at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, with a joint appointment at the School of Public Health and in the Department of Surgery and Cancer. She heads the Cancer Screening Prevention Research Group and the Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery. After completing her PhD at Cambridge University, she obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, United States. During her time as an investigator at NCI, she mentored students through the Yale University–NCI Partnership Training Program and held an adjunct position as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University, Connecticut. Since joining Imperial College in 2013, her research focuses on gastrointestinal malignancies and the etiological studies of lifestyle factors on cancer risk. She leads large-scale observational studies and trials on colorectal cancer screening and surveillance, having contributed to changes in national guidelines. She is a co-chair of the Colorectal Cancer Working Group for the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which spans 23 centers across 10 European countries, and serves as co-chair for the Surgery & Cancer theme at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.
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