Postdoctoral fellow
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Jacquelyn Bedsaul-Fryer, PhD, MPH, is a Cancer Prevention fellow in the Health Behaviors Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program. Dr. Bedsaul-Fryer has a secondary appointment in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch. Jacquelyn is interested in the integrated assessment of infections, immunity, diet, nutritional status, and host genetic factors to identify risk factors for cancer and targets for prevention.
In 2024, Dr. Bedsaul-Fryer earned her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a focus in human nutrition, epidemiology, and statistics. She earned her PhD in immunology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2022. Her work identified the mechanistic basis for a class of primary immunodeficiency disorders called CADINS that lead to frequent infections and autoimmune syndromes in children that manifest in an autosomal dominant manner.
Dr. Bedsaul-Fryer became interested in how modifiable risk factors like nutrition affect immunity, leading her to intern at not-for-profit foundation, Sight and Life, as a nutritional immunologist. There, she explored public health nutrition and collaborated towards reducing all forms of malnutrition in low-resource settings. Dr. Bedsaul-Fryer looks forward to bridging her interdisciplinary interests and experience in nutrition, infection, and immunity to prevent cancer.