Rate My Professor Aurora Perez-Cornago

Aurora Perez-Cornago is a Nutritional Epidemiologist at the University of Oxford. She is affiliated with the Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Cancer Epidemiology Unit. Her work focuses on understanding how diet and obesity influence cancer and cardiovascular disease. Perez-Cornago holds a PhD from the University of Navarra, completed between 2010 and 2014 in the field of Food, Physiology and Health. At Oxford, she has served as Associate Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology with a focus on Cancer Epidemiology. Her research examines nutritional and biological determinants of prostate cancer and broader cancer risks associated with dietary patterns, meat intake, vegetarian diets, and biomarkers. She has contributed to prospective analyses using large cohorts such as UK Biobank, investigating topics including adiposity, height, circulating insulin-like growth factors, dietary fiber, and (poly)phenols in relation to cancer incidence and progression. Perez-Cornago has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on these subjects, including studies on vegetarian diets and cancer risk, and diet, nutrition, and cancer risk more generally. Her contributions appear in journals such as the British Journal of Cancer and others in the fields of epidemiology and nutrition. She has also participated in public discussions and seminars on related topics, including height, weight, and prostate cancer. Perez-Cornago maintains an active research profile with extensive citations across her body of work on nutritional epidemiology.

Her professional activities center on advancing knowledge in population health through rigorous epidemiological methods applied to diet-disease relationships. As a researcher in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, she collaborates on projects exploring how lifestyle factors, particularly nutrition and body composition, affect disease outcomes. This includes analyses of data from major health studies to identify associations between specific dietary components and risks of aggressive or advanced cancers. Her expertise supports ongoing investigations into preventive strategies related to cancer and cardiometabolic health. Perez-Cornago's role involves both primary research and contributions to collaborative scientific efforts within the University of Oxford's medical sciences community.