Members

Research Areas: Prostate cancer, Twin Studies; tumor biomarkers and patho-epidemiology; cancer survivorship; circadian rhythm

Research Areas: Breast cancer risk and survival, intermediate markers of risk, circulating biomarkers, genetic predictors, tissue biomarkers

Research Areas: Ovarian cancer, genetic susceptibility, lifestyle factors, and etiologic heterogeneity

Research Areas: Prostate, cervix, colorectal, breast, and testicular cancer; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; NHL GWAS, case-control studies, cohort studies, screening, non-communicable diseases in Africa

Research Areas: Lung cancer and cancer prevention, molecular and genetic epidemiology and epidemiologic methods

Research Areas: Lung and esophageal cancer risk, survival and response to treatment; biologic markers and environmental, genetic and molecular epidemiology

Research Areas: Women’s health (primarily endometrial cancer, but also breast and ovarian cancer), Discovery and characterization of genetic biological markers

Research Areas: Breast cancer risk and prevention, lifestyle factors, hormones and biomarkers

Research Areas: Prostate cancer, oncology and patho-epidemiological studies

Research Areas: Prostate and colorectal cancer, lifestyle factors relating to cancer and cancer prevention

Research Areas: Breast cancer, lifestyle and breast cancer survivorship; non-communicable diseases in Africa

Research Areas: Breast, colorectal, skin, and prostate cancer, cohort studies and gene-environment interactions

Research Areas: Breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer risk and prognosis
Inherited genetic risk factors, gene-environment interactions, statistical methods

Research Areas: Breast cancer, lung cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, large prospective cohort study and environmental risk factors of cancer

Research Areas: Breast cancer, nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases, and cancer epidemiology

Research Areas: Role of physical activity in preventing chronic diseases, enhancing longevity, and women’s health

Research Areas: Molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE); immuno-MPE;
pharmaco-MPE; causal inference-MPE; epidemiologic methods

Research Areas: Breast, lung, colorectal, kidney, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer, nutrition and cancer epidemiology

Research Areas: Prostate, breast, and colon cancer, etiology of chronic diseases and nutrition in relation to chronic diseases

Research Areas: Colorectal cancer risk and survivorship, gut microbiota, nutrition, and chemoprevention

Research Areas: Breast and colon cancer, biological markers, dietary relationships with cancer, and large cohort studies

Research Areas: Molecular epidemiology studies of cancer etiology, outcomes, health disparities, and global health

Research Areas: Liver cancer, primary prevention, early detection and diagnosis, proteomics, colorectal cancer, diet, energy balance, survivorship

Research Areas: Causal inference methodology, early detection strategies

Research Areas: Prostate cancer, cancer prevention and survival, -omics tumor biomarkers

Research Areas: Cancer disparities; LGBT communities, oral contraceptives

Research Areas: Boundaries of psychiatric and cancer epidemiology, influence of psychological stress on major disease onset and development

Research Areas: Genetic and lifestyle markers of aggressive prostate cancer

Institution: Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
Focus: Integrative molecular prostate cancer epidemiology, biostatistical methods development, computational biology

Institution: Karolinska Institute
Focus: Molecular tumor features and lifestyle factors in prostate cancer etiology and progression

Institution: Queens University Belfast
Focus: Serum cholesterol levels, prostate cancer aggressiveness

Institution: Karolinska Institute, Orebro University
Focus: Determinants of cancer occurrence and progression, particularly in prostate cancer, and concentrates mainly on markers of psychological stress and inflammation

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Focus: Diet and behavioral factors for prostate cancer, genetic and tissue-based biomarkers

Institution: University of Utah
Focus: Energy balance and cancer survivorship, cardiovascular disease prevention in cancer survivors

Research Interests: Tissue-based biomarkers, early-onset cancer, clinical epidemiology, cancer survivorship

Advisor: Edward Giovannucci
Focus: Lifestyle factors and prostate cancer prevention and survival.
Other interests: genetic and environmental interactions, biomarkers, aging.

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Molecular and genetic epidemiology
Other interests: Environmental toxins, nutrition and causal inference

Advisor: Kathryn Terry
Focus: Ovarian cancer, immune and inflammatory pathways
Other interests: Endometriosis, contraception

Advisor: Mingyang Song
Research Focus: lifestyle factors and colorectal cancer prevention, personalized colorectal cancer screening, usage of cancer screening for lifestyle and dietary interventions
Other interests: early-onset cancer, lifestyle and dietary measurements methods

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Genetic and molecular factors of prostate cancer

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Identification of novel prognostic markers of cancer survival; pathway-based survival analysis
Other interests: Health disparities; translational epidemiology
Expected Graduation:

Advisor: Peter Kraft
Focus: Genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics
Expected Graduation: 2024

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Racial cancer health disparities/inequities; Interventions to decrease racial cancer disparities/inequities
Expected Graduation: 2025

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Survivorship and quality-of-life in survivorship, survival and progression, and the role of lifestyle factors and emotional and social wellbeing during survivorship
Other interests: Cancer prevention and screening, positive psychology, health disparities, qualitative research
Expected graduation: 2026

Advisor: Brittany Charlton
Focus: Cancer disparities affecting the LGBTQ population
Other interests: Fattism and cancer, social epidemiology methods
Expected graduation:

Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Lifestyle factors, biomarkers, cancer risk prediction
Expected graduation: 2024

Advisors: Stephanie Smith-Warner and Walter Willett
Focus: Nutrition and cancer epidemiology, causal inference methods, dietary assessment, environmental sustainability of the food systems
Expected graduation: 2026

Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Obesity, colorectal cancer
Expected graduation: 2024 PhD, 2026 MD

Advisor: Ed Giovannucci
Focus: Lifestyle factors, biomarkers, colorectal cancer
Other interests: Gene-lifestyle interaction, omics analysis
Expected graduation: 2027

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Bladder cancer prevention, environmental risk factors for cancer
Expected Graduation:

Advisor: Mingyang Song
Research focus: The interplay between diet, body composition, gut microbiome, host metabolomics and genetics for cancer etiology; novel microbial or metabolite-based signatures or biomarkers for cancer prevention and prognosis
Other interests: Clinical trials, machine learning
Expected graduation year: 2028

Advisor: Barbra Dickerman
Focus: Causal inference to improve decision-making for cancer treatment and prevention 
Expected graduation: May 2027

Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Research Interests: genetic and lifestyle factors for prostate cancer
Expected Graduation: 2025

Academic Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Thesis Advisor: Katsiaryna Bykov
Focus: Comparative safety of oral anticoagulants
Expected Graduation: 2025

Advisor: Heather Eliasson, Sc.D
Research Focus: Breast cancer and general cancer disparities across different minority groups such as transgender populations and racial/ethnic groups
Graduation Year: May 2025