Mahdi Fallah

Experiences: 

• Group Leader in the Division of Preventive Oncology at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT Heidelberg); 
• Head of Epidemiology Research Group in the Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ); 
• Scientist and coordinator of Nordic collaboration on familial cancers; 
• 5 years clinical practice; 4 years post-doc in epidemiology, Germany; 
• 3 years pharmaco-epidemiology post-doc in chronic diseases epidemiology in Finland; 
• extensive research experience international settings; 
• pooling and analysis of very large international epidemiological datasets (Swedish Family-Cancer Database, world's largest of its kind, including >14.7 million subjects, and various cancer registries, Nordic family-cancer datasets);
• supervising / mentoring / teaching PhD students and post-docs; epidemiological and applied statistical consultant

Highlights: AACR Awards 2015 and 2016;

• Best Article Award; 
• several press releases; 
• several grants; 
• developed familial Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Model (PCRAM) and several methods to deal with ascertainment bias in cancer registry data; 
• development and analysis of Nordic Family-Cancer Joint Dataset
• Reviewer of grant application: Swiss Cancer League, Swiss Cancer Research, Switzerland

Editorial Board Member/Reviewer of peer-reviewed journals: 

• Annals of Oncology, JAMA Dermatology, International J Cancer, Thyroid, Cancer Research Frontiers, J Thyroid Cancer, Cancer Epidemiol Bomark, Cancer Epidemiol, Hematol Reports, J Pediatric Surgery, etc. (83 Merits in Publons.com; top 7% of all reviewers and top 2% of DKFZ reviewers)