Elizabeth A. Platz is a professor and the Martin D. Abeloff, MD, scholar in cancer prevention in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she directs the NCI-funded (T32) training program in Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control. She also co-leads the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and holds joint appointments in the Department of Oncology, and the Department of Urology and the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A major focus of her work is the use of molecular epidemiology approaches to understand the mechanisms underlying the incidence and progression of cancer, especially prostate cancer. She is the editor-in-chief of the AACR’s Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention.