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2026

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D-Index
128
Citations
57244
World Ranking
2726
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Eiliv Lund is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway in Norway. Their research expertise spans several scientific fields, with a primary focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. In particular, their work concentrates on subfields such as Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Dermatology.

The main topics covered in Eiliv Lund's research include:

  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Skin Protection and Aging
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Recent publications involving Eiliv Lund illustrate the scope and variety of their scientific inquiries. These include:

  • The fraction of lung cancer attributable to smoking in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) Study, 2020, published in British Journal of Cancer
  • Lifetime Sunburn Trajectories and Associated Risks of Cutaneous Melanoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma Among a Cohort of Norwegian Women, 2022, published in JAMA Dermatology
  • Stochastic Epigenetic Mutations Are Associated with Risk of Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Mature B-cell Neoplasms, 2020, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Never-smokers and the fraction of breast cancer attributable to second-hand smoke from parents during childhood: the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study 1991-2018, 2021, published in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Heterogeneity of Associations between Total and Types of Fish Intake and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: Federated Meta-Analysis of 28 Prospective Studies Including 956,122 Participants, 2021, published in Nutrients

Eiliv Lund frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Marit Holden, Lill-Tove Busund, Lars Holden, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, and Charlotta Rylander. These collaborators contribute to various aspects of the research undertaken.

The scientist's works are commonly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Breast Cancer Research
  • JAMA Dermatology

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    G. Aad;E. Abat;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott

  • Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\TeV$

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

    E. Riboli;K. J. Hunt;N. Slimani;P. Ferrari

  • Measurement of the inclusive and dijet cross-sections of b-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Measurement of the jet fragmentation function and transverse profile in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A.A. Abdelalim

  • Measurement of isolated-photon pair production in pp collisions at s√=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Search for massive colored scalars in four-jet final states in root s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Search for direct third-generation squark pair production in final states with missing transverse momentum and two b-jets in √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

Frequent Co-Authors

Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London

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