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Tomotaka Ugai, M.D., Ph.D.

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Biography
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2023
Brigham and Women's Hospital Faculty Career Development Award
2023
MPE Rising Faculty Investigator Award
2023
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Annual Meeting 2023
2022
Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2022
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Special Conference: Colorectal Cancer
2022
Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention
2022
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award for AACR Annual Meeting 2022
2021
Japanese Cancer Association Young Investigator Award

Overview
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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.

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  1. AICR Investigator Initiated Grant (UGAI, TOMOTAKA) Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2026
    American Institute for Cancer Research
    Epidemiologic Research on Early-onset Colorectal Cancer for Precision Oncology
    Role: Principal investigator
  2. CA274122 (UGAI, TOMOTAKA) Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2028
    NIH/NCI
    Integration of Immunology and Microbiology into Molecular Pathological Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer
    Role: Principal investigator
  3. Faculty Career Development Award (UGAI, TOMOTAKA) Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2025
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    Integrative Analysis of Immune Cells and Microbiota into Large-scale Population Studies to Understand the Etiology of Early-onset Colorectal Cancer
    Role: Principal investigator
  4. Shure Family Charitable Foundation Award (UGAI TOMOTAKA) Jan 15, 2022 - Jan 14, 2024
    Prevent Cancer Foundation
    Immune Characteristics of Early-Onset and Later-Onset Colorectal Cancers
    Role: Principal investigator

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