Yu Chen is a Professor at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. with distinction in epidemiology from Columbia University in 2005. Recently, she has been leading a project with colleagues at Vanderbilt University to investigate the role of the gastric and oral microbiome in gastric premalignant and malignant lesions. She is a recipient of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Her research interests include Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Gastric cancer, Arsenic exposure, Environmental epidemiology, and Microbiomes.
Emanuela Taioli received her M.D. from the University of Milan in 1981. She then attended Columbia University, where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Epidemiology. In 2015, she joined Mount Sinai as a Professor of Population Health and Science, and of Thoracic Surgery; the Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology; and the Director of the Center for the Study of Thoracic Diseases Outcomes. She is also the Associate Director for Population Science and a Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Tisch Cancer Institute. As Associate Director, she oversees the epidemiological, behavioral, and health service research activities of TCI’s multi-disciplinary faculty with the goal of securing designation of TCI as a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Comprehensive Cancer Center—a level higher than the NCI Cancer Center designation that TCI obtained in 2015, reflecting an added depth and breadth of research as well as substantial transdisciplinary research. Before joining the school, she was the Chief of Epidemiology for Northwell Health System at Hofstra School of Medicine. Among her most important contributions are those to the field of cancer prevention, including the study of cancer risk factors in healthy populations, cancer-predisposing factors, hormone metabolism, and genetic susceptibility to environmental exposure.
Alan A. Arslan is the Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Associate Professor at the Department of Population Health, New York University. He is a Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded research projects: R21 OH012238, "DNA Methylation Profiles and Breast Cancer among WTC Survivors"; R03 CA96428, “Biomarkers of Ovarian Cancer Risk”; R03 CA95923, “Pregnancy Hormonal Profiles as Biomarker of Breast Cancer Risk”; and R03 CA108394, “Serum Vitamin D, Genetic Polymorphisms & Ovarian Cancer”. He is a co-investigator in the following projects: "The NYU Women's Health Study"; “Estrogen Metabolites, Related Genes and Breast Cancer”; “Pregnancy hormones and lifetime risk of breast cancer in mothers”; “Reduction of Annexin-V in Antiphospholipid Pregnancy Loss”. His research interests focus on the development of novel biomarkers for early detection of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, and ovarian cancer, the second most common cancer of the female reproductive tract.
