Lorna Gibson BSc MPhil

Lecturer

• Affiliation
• Teaching
• Research
• Publications

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Lorna Gibson joined the LSHTM in March 2003. She has a first degree in Biochemistry and Master's in Epidemiology and worked in molecular parasitology (malaria & leishmania) before moving to epidemiology. She has experience in trial design and management having previously worked at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, the International Agency for Research on Cancer where she ran a screening trial in the Philippines for two years, and the Institute of Cancer Research (Clinical Trials & Statistics Unit). She is currently working  on the C8 Health Project in environmental epidemiology.

Affiliation

• Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
• Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I teach on the Basic Epidemiology course, Statistics for Epidemiology & Public Health (STEPH), and Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (DANES). Since 2007, I have been co-organiser of projects for Distance Learning in Epidemiology. I also lecture to MSc Oncology students at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Through the School's development programme, I have completed a University of London Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching.

Research

I have been involved in several national studies on breast cancer, a study of Human Papilloma Virus prevalence in India, and a pilot dietary trial in adolescents. I am currently working on a couple of studies for the C8 health project (www.c8sciencepanel.org/).  

• Selected publications

• No Breast Cancer Association for Transforming Growth Factor-{beta} Pathway Colorectal Cancer Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms.

  Gibson, L.; Johnson, N.; Fraser, A.; Dos Santos Silva, I.; Houlston, R.; Peto, J.; Fletcher, O.;

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2009; 18(6):1934-6

• Risk factors for breast cancer among Filipino women in Manila.

  Gibson, L.J.; Héry, C.; Mitton, N.; Gines-Bautista, A.; Parkin, D.M.; Ngelangel, C.; Pisani, P.;

  Int J Cancer, 2009; 126(2):515-21

• Aromatase inhibitors for treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

  Gibson, L.; Lawrence, D.; Dawson, C.; Bliss, J.;

  Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2009; (4):CD003370

• A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk.

  Cox, A.; Dunning, A.M.; Garcia-Closas, M.; Balasubramanian, S.; Reed, M.W.; Pooley, K.A.; Scollen, S.; Baynes, C.; Ponder, B.A.; Chanock, S.; Lissowska, J.; Brinton, L.; Peplonska, B.; Southey, M.C.; Hopper, J.L.; McCredie, M.R.; Giles, G.G.; Fletcher, O.; Johnson, N.; Dos Santos Silva, I.; Gibson, L.; Bojesen, S.E.; Nordestgaard, B.G.; Axelsson, C.K.; Torres, D.; Hamann, U.; Justenhoven, C.; Brauch, H.; Chang-Claude, J.; Kropp, S.; Risch, A.; Wang-Gohrke, S.; Scharmann, P.; Bogdanova, N.; Dork, T.; Fagerholm, R.; Aaltonen, K.; Blomqvist, C.; Nevanlinna, H.; Seal, S.; Renwick, A.; Stratton, M.R.; Rahman, N.; Sangrajrang, S.; Hughes, D.; Odefrey, F.; Brennan, P.; Spurdle, A.B.; Chenevix-Trench, G.; The Kathleen Cunningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer; Beesley, J.; Mannermaa, A.; Hartikainen, J.; Kataja, V.; Kosma, V.M.; Couch, F.J.; Olson, J.E.; Goode, E.L.; Broeks, A.; Schmidt, M.K.; Hogervorst, F.B.; Veer, L.J.; Kang, D.; Yoo, K.Y.; Noh, D.Y.; Ahn, S.H.; Wedren, S.; Hall, P.; Low, Y.L.; Liu, J.; Milne, R.L.; Ribas, G.; Gonzalez-Neira, A.; Benitez, J.; Sigurdson, A.J.; Stredrick, D.L.; Alexander, B.H.; Struewing, J.P.; Pharoah, P.D.; Easton, D.F.; on behalf of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, .;

  Nat Genet, 2007; 39(3):352-8

• Lack of evidence on diets for obesity for children: a systematic review.

  Gibson, L.J.; Peto, J.; Warren, J.M.; Dos Santos Silva, I;

  Int J Epidemiol, 2006; 35(6):1544-52

• Polymorphisms and circulating levels in the insulin-like growth factor system and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review.

  Fletcher, O.; Gibson, L.; Johnson, N.; Altmann, D.R.; Holly, J.M.; Ashworth, A.; Peto, J.; Dos Santos Silva, I.;

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2005; 14(1):2-19

• A randomized trial of exemestane after two to three years of tamoxifen therapy in postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer

  Coombes, R. C.; Hall, E.; Gibson, L. J.; Paridaens, R.; Jassem, J.; Delozier, T.; Jones, S. E.; Alvarez, I.; Bertelli, G.; Ortmann, O.; Coates, A. S.; Bajetta, E.; Dodwell, D.; Coleman, R. E.; Fallowfield, L. J.; Mickiewicz, E.; Andersen, J.; L??Nning, P. E.; Cocconi, G.; Stewart, A.; Stuart, N.; Snowdon, C. F.; Carpentieri, M.; Massimini, G.; Bliss, J. M.

  New England Journal of Medicine, 2004; 350(11):1081-92

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