Research Abstract
My research is focused on studying the molecular epidemiology of gastrointestinal diseases and common cancers. I am interested in utilizing high-dimensional data from multiple ‘omics platforms in clinical and population-based studies to identify important risk factors, and to characterize disease phenotypes. Much of this work has been conducted in large consortia using genomic association studies, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction analyses on the relative and absolute risk scales. I am currently also involved in studying the gut microbiome and metabolomics of colorectal cancer risk in large population-based cohorts.