Olivia Lee, Ph.D.

Olivia Lee, Ph.D., joined the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch (ITEB) as a predoctoral fellow in January 2020. She completed her doctoral degree through the NIH Graduate Partnership Program (GPP) between NCI DCEG and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2024. Her doctoral research focused on profiling the genomic landscape of post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer metastasis and investigating the interaction between somatic mutations and regulatory germline variants in Ewing Sarcoma under the mentorship of Stephen Chanock, M.D., Mitchell Machiela, Sc.D., M.P.H., and John Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D. (MD Anderson cancer center).

In ITEB, Dr. Lee’s work is focused on the Sherlock-Lung normal tissue study to understand the tumor evolution of lung cancer from never-smokers through multi-omic analysis and epidemiologic assessment, under the mentorship of Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D.