Lorelei Mucci
Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School
Biography
Harvard Medical School
Dr Mucci is a cancer epidemiologist with more than ten years of research and teaching experience. She is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead the Cancer Epidemiology program at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC).
Her research has focused on biomarker studies investigating the etiology of cancer risk as well as studying lifestyle and molecular factors associated with cancer progression. Over the past eight years, her research focus has turned to prostate cancer tumour biomarkers.
Dr Mucci is Principal Investigator of several funded grants across various aspects of prostate cancer etiology, molecular subclassification and prognostication. She led the tumour biorepositories of 3,000 prostate cancer patients who are participants in the Physicians’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Moreover, she is co-leader of a multi-disciplinary, international prostate cancer patho-epidemiology collaboration of researchers at Harvard as well as medical institutions in Sweden, Iceland, Ireland and Italy.
Dr Mucci’s research includes studies focused on immunohistochemistry and large-scale genome wide expression profiling study within large cohorts of men with prostate cancer. Teaching and mentoring has been a core component of her academic work. She has mentored of 25 graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and clinical fellows, and served as co-Director of a peer-mentoring program of 40 fellows and instructors.
Education
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - ScD, Epidemiology
- Tufts University - BS, Biology
Videos
Smoking and Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer and Lifestyle
Week 8 : COL LORELEI MUCCI PART II: SELENIUM
Week 8 : COL LORELEI MUCCI PART I: SELENIUM
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium- Lorelei Mucci
Cancer and Diet
Can Stress Cause Cancer?
Cancer and Inflammation
Coffee and Prostate Cancer
The Microbiome and Chronic Disease
Cancer and Stress
Meet local GAP researcher Lorelei Mucci - Movember US
Lorelei Mucci, Seminar, September 15, 2021
Defining Gleason Grade as a Predictor of Lethal Prostate Cancer
Broccoli and Prostate Cancer
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