Yifei Shan
Advisor: Stephanie Smith-Warner
Focus: Coffee intake and gene expression in prostate cancer tumor tissue
Other interests: Cancer prevention through diet
Expected Graduation:
Yuchen Zhao
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Identification of novel prognostic markers of cancer survival; pathway-based survival analysis
Other interests: Health disparities; translational epidemiology
Expected Graduation:
Naiyu Chen
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Cancer survivorship, lifestyle factors, built and social environments
Other interests: Health disparities, cancer screening, causal inference methods
Expected Graduation: 2024
Yon Ho Jee
Advisor: Peter Kraft
Focus: Genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics
Expected Graduation: 2024
Emma McGee
Advisors: Miguel Hernán and A. Heather Eliassen
Focus: Causal inference for cancer survivors
Michelle Sodipo
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Racial cancer health disparities/inequities; Interventions to decrease racial cancer disparities/inequities
Expected Graduation: 2025
Tung Pham
Advisor: Edward Giovannucci
Focus: Colorectal cancer
Other interests: The effect of hereditary and lifestyle risk factors on colorectal adenoma and colorectal cancer risk
Expected Graduation: 2023
Colleen McGrath
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
Alexis Miranda
Advisor: Brittany Charlton
Focus: Cancer disparities affecting the LGBTQ population
Other interests: Fattism and cancer, social epidemiology methods
Expected graduation:
Zhe (Gigi) Fang
Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Lifestyle factors, biomarkers, cancer risk prediction
Expected graduation: 2024
Analí Castellanos Gutiérrez
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
Alaina Bever
Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Obesity, colorectal cancer
Expected graduation: 2024 PhD, 2026 MD
Kehuan Lin
Advisor: Ed Giovannucci
Focus: Lifestyle factors, biomarkers, colorectal cancer
Other interests: Gene-lifestyle interaction, omics analysis
Expected graduation: 2027
