Jack Cuzick

Sir
Jack Cuzick
CBE FRS FMedSci
Cuzick in 2016
Born (1948-08-11) 11 August 1948 (age 76)
Hawthorne, California, U.S.
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
ThesisOn the Moments of the Number of Curve Crossings by a Stationary Gaussian Process (1974)
Doctoral advisorJerome Spanier[1]
Websitewww.qmul.ac.uk/wolfson/about-us/staff/profiles/vuzickjack.html

Sir Jack Martin Cuzick[2] (born 11 August 1948) is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.[3]

Education and early life

Cuzick was born in Hawthorne, California and attended El Segundo High School.[4] He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1970 by the Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in mathematics by Claremont Graduate School in 1974.[1]

Research and career

He worked on the mathematical analysis of clinical trial methodology at Columbia University in New York City in the late 1970s and moved to Oxford University in 1978 to work with cancer epidemiologist Richard Doll.[citation needed] He is involved in the collection and analysis of data for cancer prevention and screening, particularly for breast, cervical and bowel cancers.[5] He is best known for his role conducting the IBIS trials of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors for chemoprevention of breast cancer in women with high risk of developing the disease. For this research, Cuzick's team won Cancer Research UK's Translational Cancer Research Prize in 2014,[6]

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ a b Jack Cuzick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 13. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Jack Cuzick, PhD, FRS, FMedSci, FRCP(hon)". Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  4. ^ EL SEGUNDO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION : Jack Cuzick, PhD; retrieved 8 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Jack Cuzick". Cancer Research UK. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Translational Cancer Research Prize". Cancer Research UK. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Queen Mary Professors recognised in 2025 New Year Honours". QMUL. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Prize". Cancer Research UK. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Jack Cuzick biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Wolfson Institute - Professor Jack Cuzick receives American Cancer Society Medal of Honor | Wolfson Institute". Wolfson.qmul.ac.uk. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  11. ^ "Fellow | Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N8.
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