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Erin Giles
- Assistant Professor
- Office:
- 214A Cater-Mattil
- Email:
- egiles@tamu.edu
- Phone:
- 979-459-1849
- https://gileslab.tamu.edu/
- Undergraduate Education
- B.Sc. in Bio-Medical Science (Honours)
- University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2000
- Graduate Education
- Ph.D.in Medical Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2007
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
- Awards
- 2018-Fellow, 2018 cohort, NCI Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC)
- 2017-Komen Obesity-Breast Cancer Grand Challenge Competition, 2nd Place Award
- 2015-Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center
- 2014-Colorado Center for Women’s Health Research - Junior Faculty Research Development Award
- 2014-Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- 2014-Top Abstract, The Obesity Society – Obesity & Cancer Section
- 2014-Travel Award - Integrating Resistant Starch, Microbiome, and Disease Risk Reduction Symposium
- 2013-Early Career Travel Award, Endocrine Society Annual Meeting
- 2012-Research Recognition Award, American Physiological Society, Integrative Biology of Exercise IV Meeting
- 2012-Winning Poster, University of Colorado Postdoctoral Research Day
- 2010-Colorado Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Pilot Award
- 2010-American Institute for Cancer Research Fellowship
- 2009-Thorkildensen Research Fellowship
- 2009-Early Career Investigator Travel Award, Kern Aspen Lipid Conference
- 2009-Travel Award, FASEB Summer Research Conference - The Physiological Basis for Obesity Therapeutics
- 2008-University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine Research Day 1st place - Postdoctoral Fellows Category
- 2006-McMaster University Department of Oncology Residents Research Day 1st place (oral)
- 2003-Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Research Fellowship
- 2003-Travel Award, Gordon Research Conference - Insulin-Like Growth Factors in Physiology & Disease, Scholar
- 2001-2003 -Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2000-2001-Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University
- 1999-Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award, University of Guelph
Research Interest
I am currently building a research program that uses an integrative, translational approach to understand the mechanisms by which obesity promotes postmenopausal breast cancers. My work focuses on understanding how the obese microenvironment, when combined with the metabolic and hormonal changes associated with menopause, promote tumor development, survival, and growth. In parallel, I am investigating the role of adipose tissue inflammation in the development of metabolic disease after menopause. My hope is that the knowledge gained from studying the ‘normal’ adipose and breast environments during menopause will also help us understand the changes that occur to create a tumor-promoting environment in the breast of obese women during this same window of time.
Publications
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