@DimouNiki

Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Agency for Research on Cancer/ World Health Organization

 Lyon, France
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Joined May 2019
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Is academia "just a job" or a higher calling?
A screenshot of a Nature article titled "Academia is just a job" by Laurel Raffington.

ALT A screenshot of a Nature article titled "Academia is just a job" by Laurel Raffington.

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IARC
@IARCWHO30 Oct 2025
New training course organized by the IARC Genomic Epidemiology Branch with our partners in the @sangerinstitute & Wellcome @ConnectingSci. This training and the topic builds upon our Mutographs project. Apply by 3 November. More info: coursesandconferences.wellco…
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Congratulations @Yoshua_Bengio!! Possibly the first scientist with one million citations in the world. Crazy how fast the field has grown 🤯
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👋Plant-based dietary patterns and age-specific risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a prospective analysis - The Lancet Healthy Longevity @CordovaReynalda et al. @IARCWHO @TheLancet thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Plant-based dietary patterns and age-specific risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic...

A healthy plant-based diet might reduce the burden of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases among middle-aged and older adults.

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🚨 PhD Fellowship Opportunity in instrumental genetics and microbiome-based multiomics integration analyses and predictive modeling! 🌱🧬🔬 📢 Apply now or share with those who might be interested! #PhDOpportunity #Bioinformatics #PredictiveModeling idibgi.org/treball/fi-agaur-…

FI-AGAUR Digestive Diseases and Microbiota research group - CAT - IDIBGI

IDIBGI is seeking highly motivated and ambitious researchers of any nationality, with an outstanding academic record,...

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🚨 We're hiring 3 #postdocs at @IARCWHO in Lyon, France! Join us to work with @hilaryarobbins @Mattias31 @XiaoshuangF & me on #cancer #epidemiology & #prevention. 🧠 Background in epi/biostats 📍 Lyon, France 🔗 Details: iarc.who.int/wp-content/uplo… #epitwitter #CancerResearch
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest9 Jun 2025
Incidence of colorectal cancer is increasing globally for younger people. This Practice article outlines why diagnosis is easily missed, how it should be diagnosed, and management #MedEd bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024…

Early onset colorectal cancer

### What you need to know A 32 year old woman presented to her GP with a four week history of a prolapsing anal lump after defecation. She had a normal body mass index and a history of anxiety,...

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IARC
@IARCWHO26 May 2025
🆕findings from IARC & partners reveals modest but significant association between #alcohol intake & pancreatic #cancer, independent of sex & 🚬status. #PancreaticCancer is a leading cause of cancer death. Findings published in @PLOSMedicine. @WHO_Europe doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed…

Alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk: An analysis from 30 prospective studies across Asia,...

Sabine Naudin and colleagues leverage individual-level data from 30 prospective cohorts from four continents to examine the association between alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk.

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@IARCWHO21 May 2025
IARC’s Dr Zisis Kozlakidis & Dr Inge Huybrechts will provide details of the ongoing InterNatIonal CHildhood #Leukemia Microbiome/MEtabolome (NICHE) study during a #WHA side-event on #nutrition, childhood #cancer & health outcomes. 23 May, 5-7pm, Geneva, 🇨🇭 iarc.who.int/news-events/iar…
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Our study on tobacco smoke-induced mutagenesis in head & neck cancer (HNC) is out today in @NatureGenet ! rdcu.be/efNiH 🧬🔥 We uncover the multiple ways tobacco and alcohol drive HNC development. A short thread 🧵⬇️
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Triangulation of evidence in medical research explained, in work led by @SirenaGtz and @MariaGlymour link.springer.com/article/10… Will do a thread when I get the time

Evidence triangulation in health research

European Journal of Epidemiology - For many important questions about influences on clinical and public health outcomes, no single study can provide a decisive answer. The perfect study—a...

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IARC
@IARCWHO21 Jan 2025
IARC & partners find consuming #UPF may increase risk of mortality from circulatory disease, cerebrovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, digestive diseases, & –not previously assessed– #Parkinson disease, independent of alcohol, #BMI, other covariates iarc.who.int/news-events/ass…
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IARC
@IARCWHO16 Dec 2024
One month left to apply to one of the modules of the IARC #IARCSummerschool 2024🗓️. Unsure about applying🤔? Check out what previous participants have to say 💬 d2e38qvytde633.cloudfront.ne…. 📰Apply before 6 January 2025! More info 👉training.iarc.fr/summer-scho…
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#Movember at @IARCWHO Mo Bros and Mo Sisters supporting Men's #Health
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IARC
@IARCWHO2 Dec 2024
Do you want to become a supporter of the #IARCSummerSchool🏫& unlock opportunities for selected applicants from #LMIC? Find out how👉! training.iarc.who.int/iarc-s… More infoℹ️ on the IARC Summer School 👉training.iarc.fr/summer-scho…
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IARC
@IARCWHO29 Nov 2024
IARC's Dr Michael Olanipekun & Dr @MarieLaureAix describe the burden of #PancreaticCancer & some of the research being conducted at IARC in this🆕video to mark the close of Pancreatic #Cancer Awareness Month. #DISCERN @FerreiroAida @Lyonpaul @VivianViallon youtu.be/WXgs0DyNavk
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Violence against women takes multiple forms, incl.: 🫸🏽 Intimate partner violence 🫸🏽 Sexual violence 🫸🏽 Psychological violence 🫸🏽 Female genital mutilation 🫸🏽 Forced & early marriage 🫸🏽 Femicide 🫸🏽 Trafficking #EndViolence against women & girls! #NoExcuse #16Days
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Elmira@ellvlirae22 Nov 2024
I’m excited to share a major milestone in my PhD progress! 🚀 We’ve identified a TP53 variant (rs78378222) in the 3’ UTR that reduces the risk of developing HNSCC by 40%—a huge finding in cancer genetics! Read the full preprint here: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #CancerResearch

Cross-ancestral GWAS identifies 29 novel variants across Head and Neck Cancer subsites

In this multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) and fine mapping study of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) subsites, we analysed 19,073 cases and 38,857 controls and identi...

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