Shannon Renee Turzanski Fortner

Renée Turzanski Fortner is a cancer epidemiologist with a special interest in breast and gynecological cancer, underlying biological mechanisms linking risk factors and cancer, and early detection and cancer survival. She leads research on lifestyle, reproductive, hormonal, inflammation- and infection-related influences and cancer in large prospective cohorts in Europe and the USA, and in international consortia. Fortner has a PhD in reproductive epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has been a postdoctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology at TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She has been a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Section for Cancer Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and subsequently headed the Group for Hormones and Cancer at the section.