Renee Fortner PhD

Dr. Renee Turzanski Fortner is a molecular epidemiologist at the Institute for Population-based Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway in Oslo, Norway, and a senior scientist in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany. The goal of Dr. Fortner’s research is to provide meaningful, actionable knowledge on the etiology of breast and gynecologic cancers toward prevention and earlier detection. To that end, she conducts studies on lifestyle and reproductive factors, as well as circulating hormones, hormonally active metabolites, growth factors, inflammation factors, and markers of infection in relation to cancer risk. Further, she is active in investigations of serologic markers for ovarian cancer early detection and studies on ovarian cancer survival. Dr. Fortner earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health, before joining the DKFZ, and, subsequently, the Cancer Registry of Norway.