Instructor in Pathology
Pathology-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ugai is a junior faculty member at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and an MD/PhD physician scientist with expertise in pathology, clinical oncology, cancer epidemiology, and molecular epidemiology. His current research focuses on early-onset cancers and tumor biomarkers, including immune and microbial characteristics of cancer. Dr. Ugai is a founder of the International Cancer Spectrum Consortium, which is an interdisciplinary working group with faculty, postdocs, and students from various institutions all over the world. Dr. Ugai's group aims to build up a resource that integrates lifestyles and biomarkers including genetics and tissue molecular markers to (a) develop effective prevention and early-detection strategies, and (b) identify novel biomarkers to guide early-stage clinical decisions.
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Annual Meeting 2023
American Association for Cancer Research
Brigham and Women's Hospital Faculty Career Development Award
Brigham and Women's Hospital
MPE Rising Faculty Investigator Award
The 6th International MPE Meeting
Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard Th. Chan School of Public Health
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Special Conference: Colorectal Cancer
American Association for Cancer Research
Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention
Harvard Th. Chan School of Public Health
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Annual Meeting 2022
American Association for Cancer Research
Japanese Cancer Association Young Investigator Award
Japanese Cancer Association
Wang K, Lo CH, Mehta RS, Nguyen LH, Wang Y, Ma W, Ugai T, Kawamura H, Ugai S, Takashima Y, Mima K, Arima K, Okadome K, Giannakis M, Sears CL, Meyerhardt JA, Ng K, Segata N, Izard J, Rimm EB, Garrett WS, Huttenhower C, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT, Ogino S, Song M.
Gastroenterology. 2024 Dec. 167(7):1371-1383.e4. PMID: 39117122
Fang A, Ugai T, Gurjao C, Zhong R, Liu Z, Zhang X, Wang P, Nowak J, Wang M, Giannakis M, Ogino S, Zhang X, Giovannucci E.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Aug 01. 116(8):1255-1263. PMID: 38574386
Zhang Y, Khil J, Feng X, Ugai T, Ogino S, Giovannucci E.
Cancer Causes Control. 2024 Nov. 35(11):1457-1466. PMID: 39066935
Ugai S, Yao Q, Takashima Y, Zhong Y, Matsuda K, Kawamura H, Imamura Y, Okadome K, Mima K, Arima K, Kosumi K, Song M, Meyerhardt JA, Giannakis M, Nowak JA, Ugai T, Ogino S.
Cancer Sci. 2024 Oct. 115(10):3455-3465. PMID: 39039804
Wildgoose P, Servidio-Italiano F, Raphael MJ, Slovinec D'Angelo M, Macaulay C, Kassam S, Nixon N, Perea J, Hamilton S, Ramjeesingh R, Gill S, Pollett A, Ogino S, Ugai T, Gupta A.
Curr Oncol. 2024 Jul 19. 31(7):4063-4078. PMID: 39057175
Aglago EK, Qu C, Harlid S, Phipps AI, Steinfelder RS, Ogino S, Thomas CE, Hsu L, Toland AE, Brenner H, Berndt SI, Buchanan DD, Campbell PT, Cao Y, Chan AT, Drew DA, Figueiredo JC, French AJ, Gallinger S, Georgeson P, Giannakis M, Goode EL, Gruber SB, Gunter MJ, Harrison TA, Hoffmeister M, Huang WY, Hullar MA, Huyghe JR, Jenkins MA, Lynch BM, Moreno V, Murphy N, Newton CC, Nowak JA, Obón-Santacana M, Sun W, Ugai T, Um CY, Zaidi SH, Tsilidis KK, van Guelpen B, Peters U.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Sep. 120(3):664-673. PMID: 39025327
Bever AM, Hang D, Lee DH, Tabung FK, Ugai T, Ogino S, Meyerhardt JA, Chan AT, Eliassen AH, Liang L, Stampfer MJ, Song M.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Jul 01. 116(7):1126-1136. PMID: 38430005
Ugai T, Yao Q, Ugai S, Ogino S.
Innovation (Camb). 2024 Jul 01. 5(4):100656. PMID: 39021526
Kawamura H, Ugai T, Takashima Y, Okadome K, Shimizu T, Mima K, Akimoto N, Haruki K, Arima K, Zhao M, Väyrynen JP, Wu K, Zhang X, Ng K, Nowak JA, Meyerhardt JA, Giovannucci EL, Giannakis M, Chan AT, Huttenhower C, Garrett WS, Song M, Ogino S.
Ann Surg. 2024 May 06. PMID: 38708875
Schmit SL, Tsai YY, Bonner JD, Sanz-Pamplona R, Joshi AD, Ugai T, Lindsey SS, Melas M, McDonnell KJ, Idos GE, Walker CP, Qu C, Kast WM, Da Silva DM, Glickman JN, Chan AT, Giannakis M, Nowak JA, Rennert HS, Robins HS, Ogino S, Greenson JK, Moreno V, Rennert G, Gruber SB.
BMC Genomics. 2024 Apr 25. 25(1):409. PMID: 38664626
Cancers are on the rise among people younger than 50, and experts think that lifestyle changes may have something to do with it—although data is not firm.
Incidence of early onset cancers—including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas—has been dramatically increasing around the world since 1990.
