Julie Palmer, ScD, Named Komen Scholar

Associate Director of Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center Julie Palmer, ScD, will receive $600,000 from Susan G. Komen® to develop a risk prediction tool that will consider the different risk factors for ER+ and ER- breast cancer, along with age-related incidence patterns in African-American women. This tool will help identify African-American women who would benefit from earlier and more frequent screening or alternative modes of screening.

Dr. Palmer, who also serves as professor of epidemiology at BU’s School of Public Health and associate director for population sciences at the BU-BMC Cancer Center, is one of eight New England researchers named Komen Scholars. The grants awarded by Susan G. Komen® include $3,260,095 in new funding for research at five institutions in Massachusetts, bringing Komen’s total research investment in Massachusetts to $79,633,610 since 1982. Susan G. Komen® is the world’s leading breast cancer organization, funding more breast cancer research than any other nonprofit outside of the federal government while providing real-time help to those facing the disease.