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Su Yon Jung is an Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Nursing and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is a molecular genomic cancer epidemiologist, conducting research on cancer-related metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers linked to lifestyle factors for cancer prevention strategies. Dr. Jung has extensive research experiences from her graduate studies in Pittsburgh and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on genetic and epigenetic studies examining the interplay between environmental and behavioral factors with genetic markers in cancer carcinogenesis and progression. She aims to contribute to the development of genetically and epigenetically targeted preventive interventions. Dr. Jung's work involves complex methodologies such as multivariate modeling and machine-learning approaches applied to big data, genomic and epigenetic statistics, and studies addressing cancer health disparities among underrepresented populations.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.