Dr. Andriana Papaconstantinou - Visiting Fellow

Dr. Papaconstantinou received her PhD in 2003 from the George Washington University, Department of Biology where she studied the mechanisms of estrogen-like effects for environmental endocrine disruptors in the mouse uterus. In 2002 she joined the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the FDA as a postdoctoral fellow where she studied the estrogenicity of bisphenol A in the hippocampus of rat embryos. She joined the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis at the NCI as a Visiting Fellow in 2003. Her projects focus on carcinogen-induced early gene alterations in the rat mammary gland and on the role of STAT5A in PhIP-induced mammary tumors.