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Kana Wu, Ph.D.

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As a trained physician, nutrition and cancer epidemiologist, and a longtime research member of three large cohorts, the Nurses' Health Study, Nurses' Health Study 2, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, my research activities focus on studying the relationship between diet, lifestyle, and risk of cancers. To illuminate insight into the complex pathways driving carcinogenesis, I am leading multidisciplinary projects integrating diet, lifestyle, and genetic risk factors with plasma and tumor tissue biomarkers. In another line of research, I examine the contribution of early life exposures and genetic susceptibility to the etiology of early onset cancers.
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  1. R21CA230873 (WU, KANA) Jul 3, 2018 - Jun 30, 2021
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    Integrating diet, lifestyle and tumor tissue molecular subtyping to study the role of adolescent calcium intake on the risk of early onset colorectal neoplasia
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R21CA222940 (WU, KANA) Jan 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2020
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    Integrating diet and tissue whole exome sequencing data to study processed meat and colorectal cancer
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. R03CA197879 (WU, KANA) Jul 1, 2015 - Jun 30, 2017
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    Early life risk factors and risk of colorectal neoplasia
    Role: Principal Investigator

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