Jian-Min Yuan is a Professor
and Associate Director of Cancer Control and Population Science, the Arnold
Palmer Endowed Chair in Cancer Prevention, and the Co-Leader in Cancer
Epidemiology and Prevention, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Hillman Caner Center. He received his MD from Fudan University Shanghai Medical
College in 1983 and his MPH in Public Health/Epidemiology from Fudan University
School of Public Health in 1986 and earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University
of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in 1996. He is the Principal
Investigator (PI) of both the Shanghai Cohort Study and the Singapore Chinese
Health Study—two population-based prospective cohort studies of more than
80,000 middle-aged men and women with available biospecimens collected at
baseline and under surveillance for more than 25 years. He is also the current
PI of the Pittsburgh Lung Screening Study that has collected repeated annual
blood samples and biannual low-dose CT scans from a cohort of 3600 smokers at
high risk for lung cancer. His research focuses on the etiologic and protective
roles of environmental exposures and genetic factors and their interaction in
the development of cancers.
