Team
Current Members
Jiyoung Ahn, PhD
Director
Professor of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Associate Director for Population Science, NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center
PhD Cornell; Postdoc NCI
Richard Hayes, DDS, PhD
Co-director
Professor of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
PhD Johns Hopkins; DDS Columbia
Dia Beggs, BA
Project Coordinator
MPH student at NYU CGPH
I am working on the FAMiLI study while studying Environmental Public Health Sciences at NYU College of Global Public Health.
Hee Sun Choi, MS
Research Assistant
MS from University of Arizona
I am working on the FAMiLI study doing data collection and participant recruitment, specifically in the Korean community.
Soyoung Kwok, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD from Korea University
My research focuses on the identification of oral microbiota contributing to the racial and socioeconomic disparities in head and neck cancer development.
ChengWei Peng, MD
Heme-oncology postdoctoral Fellow
MD from Vanderbilt University, Residency from Yale
Mykhaylo Usyk, MS
PhD Candidate
BS in Biomolecular Science and a MSci in Bioinformatics from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering
Feng Wu, PhD
Senior Lab manager and research scientist
PhD from Kyoto University
I currently manage samples from the FAMiLi study, melanoma, colon and head & neck cancer microbiome studies, perform ITS sequencing related experiments, in addition, involve method development of human somatic mutation.
Lorraine Maceda
Assistant Research Technician
I work with molecular biology techniques to facilitate the research at hand.
Jenny Yasar, MSW
Research Assistant
MSW from NYU
I have a Masters of Social Work from NYU and currently am pursuing MBA to be a strategic consultant in the healthcare field. I am interested in helping communities understand various health-related topics and educate them on how to obtain the most optimized lifestyle as possible.
Dariush Ahdoot, BA
Research Assistant
BA from Indiana University
I am working on the FAMiLI study doing data collection and participant recruitment.
Past Members
| NAME | Current Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Brandilyn A. Peters, PhD | Post-doctoral fellow | Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY |
| Ajay Prakash, MD, PhD | Post-doctoral fellow | Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School |
| Daniel Lin, MD | Post-doctoral fellow | Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, PA |
| Yvonne Valles Rodriguez, PhD | Research Scientist | Lecturer, The University of the West Indies, Barbados |
| Jing Wu, PhD | Lab manager | Research Scientist, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NY |
| Xiaozhou Fan, PhD | PhD student | Associate Director, Epidemiology, Oncology, RWE, Bayer |
| Christine Dominianni, PhD | PhD student | Environmental Health Research fellow, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NY |
| Ryan Shanley, PhD | PhD student | Manager, NYC Department of Social Services, NY |
| Soeun Lee, BS | Research Assistant | Medical student, University of Central Florida, FL |
| Emilia Cobbs, BS | Research Coordinator | MPA student, Harvard Kennedy School (Health Policy) |
| Ashley Kwon, BS | Research Assistant | PhD student, UCLA School of Public Health |
| Deborah Min, MPH | Research Coordinator | Project Coordinator, NYU Grossman School of Medicine |