Research
Grants and contracts: Dr. XXX came into her RFA position in 2013 as the PI on her ongoing K07 award, which is expected to span between 9/2012 – 9/2017. This project aims to study kindred’s with the unique phenotype of brast-colon cancer and identify …show more content…
XXX fosters team science and has multiple collaborations with large established research groups as well as faculty members of the department. Her primary mentor and collaborator has been Dr. XXX. She assists him in specifically collaborated studies examining differences in cancer susceptibility across different ethnic backgrounds; and the GAME-ON study which focuses on different cancer types. Her collaborations with other faculty members of the GI department has spanned across a variety of topics. Although the exact role Dr. XXX played in these collaborations is not always clearly outlined in the synopsis, she has been included as a coauthor on several publications resulting from these collaborations. These have included an article in Nature Communications and another in …show more content…
XXX serves as a mentor to summer research interns through the Department of Cancer Prevention. She formerly had a formal teaching role at the UT School of Public Health (course hour 3.0) although this involvement terminated in 2013.
Service and other activities
Dr. XXX has served as a member of the Faculty Senate Academic Advisory Committee since 2013. She also serves on the Division of Internal Medicine Research Committee and the Tissue Bank committee of the Department of Gastroenterology.
She is an ad hoc reviewer for 11 journals. She also is a member of multiple national organizations such as AAAS, AACR, and ASHG, where she has presented abstracts.
Overview and recommendations
Dr. XXX has been active in her research. She has predominantly worked with Dr. XXX, Professor in the Department of Gastroenterology. She has worked with Dr. XXX to develop an electronic family outreach program, as well as a public health approach to identifying patients with hereditary cancer syndromes. She also has built collaborative research with other members of the Department as well as researchers outside of the institution. These research areas have bridged over a wide range of