Professor,
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
She/Her/Hers
Dr. Iona Cheng is an epidemiologist with research interests focused on the role of genetic and molecular factors, health behaviors, environmental exposures, and neighborhood factors on cancer incidence and prognosis. Her overall research program is centered on understanding racial and ethnic disparities in cancer risk. Dr. Cheng has an active program of research studies of nested case-control and cohort studies of the breast, lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer within the Multiethnic Cohort Study. She is also Co-Investigator of Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a part of the California Cancer Registry and the NCI Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Program, the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study, and the Colon Cancer Family Registry.
Email: iona.cheng@ucsf.edu
Website: https://dreamlab.ucsf.edu/
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