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Autumn 2026 Participant Newsletter
Meet Nathalie Kliemann, a Staff Scientist at the Generations Study
Nathalie Kliemann joined the Breast Cancer Now Generations Study research team at The Institute of Cancer Research as a Staff Scientist in April 2025. She holds a PhD in Behavioural Science and Health from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.
Following the completion of her PhD in 2017, Nathalie was a post-doctoral researcher in the Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO) in France. She later worked as a consultant with the Sustainable Lifestyle and Cancer team at IARC/WHO and as a Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the Santa Catarina Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CEPON) in Brazil.
Nathalie leads research projects looking at how lifestyle and the environment influence breast cancer risk and identifying opportunities for cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management, and analysis of large-scale epidemiological studies of cancer.
At the Breast Cancer Now Generations Study, Nathalie oversees key study operations, including the newsletters and participant advisory panel, collaborations with other researchers, and the collection of new questionnaires and breast tissue samples. She also oversees research initiatives, including the study design and tissue collection for the Benign Breast Disease research project. Through this work, she aims to investigate how factors that increase the chances of developing breast cancer could shape how breast tissue looks under a microscope before any cancer develops, and how features in benign (non-cancerous) breast tissue could help predict future breast cancer risk.
"I am delighted to be part of the Breast Cancer Now Generations Study team. Helping to manage such an incredible research resource while contributing to new discoveries in breast cancer prevention is both rewarding and inspiring. I am excited by the opportunity to advance our understanding of how lifestyle and environmental factors influence breast cancer risk and, ultimately, to support efforts to prevent the disease. I am also grateful to play a role in enhancing our communication and engagement with study participants, whose longstanding commitment and generous contributions of data and samples are at the heart of the study's success."
-Nathalie