Dr. Rachel Murphy is a Senior Scientist at the BC Cancer and an Associate Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of Alberta and completed a post doctorate in the Laboratory of Epidemiology, and Population Sciences at the National Institute on Aging in the United States. Her research program aims to advance the understanding of relationships between diet, nutrition and chronic disease, particularly cancer. Her research primarily uses a population-based approach and innovative methodologies to study metabolic pathways underlying relationships. 

Affiliations

Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

Website: https://spph.ubc.ca/faculty/rachel-murphy/

Credentials

Scientific Leader, DSM Nutritional Products 2014-2015

PhD., Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Alberta, 2011

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes on Aging, 2011-2014

Projects

Selected Publications

The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS): Metabolomics in 47 Prospective Cohort Studies.

American journal of epidemiology, 2019
Yu, Bing, Zanetti, Krista A, Temprosa, Marinella, Albanes, Demetrius, Appel, Nathan, Barrera, Clara Barrios, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Boerwinkle, Eric, Casas, Juan P, Clish, Clary, Dale, Caroline, Dehghan, Abbas, Derkach, Andriy, Eliassen, A Heather, Elliott, Paul, Fahy, Eoin, Gieger, Christian, Gunter, Marc J, Harada, Sei, Harris, Tamara, Herr, Deron R, Herrington, David, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Hoover, Elise, Hsing, Ann W, Johansson, Mattias, Kelly, Rachel S, Khoo, Chin Meng, Kivimäki, Mika, Kristal, Bruce S, Langenberg, Claudia, Lasky-Su, Jessica, Lawlor, Deborah A, Lotta, Luca A, Mangino, Massimo, Le Marchand, Loïc, Mathé, Ewy, Matthews, Charles E, Menni, Cristina, Mucci, Lorelei A, Murphy, Rachel, Oresic, Matej, Orwoll, Eric, Ose, Jennifer, Pereira, Alexandre C, Playdon, Mary C, Poston, Lucilla, Price, Jackie, Qi, Qibin, Rexrode, Kathryn, Risch, Adam, Sampson, Joshua, Seow, Wei Jie, Sesso, Howard D, Shah, Svati H, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Smith, Gordon C S, Sovio, Ulla, Stevens, Victoria L, Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael, Takebayashi, Toru, Tillin, Therese, Travis, Ruth, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Ulrich, Cornelia M, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Verma, Mukesh, Wang, Ying, Wareham, Nick J, Wong, Andrew, Younes, Naji, Zhao, Hua, Zheng, Wei, Moore, Steven C
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Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.

PLoS medicine, 2018
Imamura, Fumiaki, Fretts, Amanda, Marklund, Matti, Ardisson Korat, Andres V, Yang, Wei-Sin, Lankinen, Maria, Qureshi, Waqas, Helmer, Catherine, Chen, Tzu-An, Wong, Kerry, Bassett, Julie K, Murphy, Rachel, Tintle, Nathan, Yu, Chaoyu Ian, Brouwer, Ingeborg A, Chien, Kuo-Liong, Frazier-Wood, Alexis C, Del Gobbo, Liana C, Djoussé, Luc, Geleijnse, Johanna M, Giles, Graham G, de Goede, Janette, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Harris, William S, Hodge, Allison, Hu, Frank, , , Koulman, Albert, Laakso, Markku, Lind, Lars, Lin, Hung-Ju, McKnight, Barbara, Rajaobelina, Kalina, Risérus, Ulf, Robinson, Jennifer G, Samieri, Cécilia, Siscovick, David S, Soedamah-Muthu, Sabita S, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Sun, Qi, Tsai, Michael Y, Uusitupa, Matti, Wagenknecht, Lynne E, Wareham, Nick J, Wu, Jason Hy, Micha, Renata, Forouhi, Nita G, Lemaitre, Rozenn N, Mozaffarian, Dariush, ,
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