Maria Teresa Landi is an Italian epidemiologist and oncologist who researches genetic and environmental determinants of lung cancer and

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. At the National Cancer Institute, she is a senior investigator in the integrative tumor epidemiology branch and a senior advisor for genomic epidemiology. Landi is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Landi completed an M.D. ''

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'' from the University of Milan and was trained in oncology and general medicine at the San Raffaele Hospital. She earned a Ph.D. in occupational medicine and industrial hygiene, a subgroup of molecular epidemiology, from an Italian University Consortium in 1993. Landi qualified for the associate professorship in occupational medicine and industrial hygiene in the Italian Universities in 1998. Landi received tenure in the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) in 2006. She is a senior investigator in the integrative tumor epidemiology branch. She is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Landi and her team conduct germline and

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genomic analyses in population studies. In 2021, she was appointed senior advisor for genomic epidemiology in DCEG's trans-divisional research program. Landi's research focuses on understanding tumor etiology and evolution for potential translational applications. She leads large-scale multidisciplinary research projects primarily on genetic and environmental determinants of lung cancer and

. Landi conducts analyses of genomic,

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, and epigenomic data, and integrates molecular data with histological and radiological imaging and clinical and epidemiological data. She also examines the role of

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in cancer risk among highly exposed populations, utilizing markers of exposure and early effect.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Landi, Maria Teresa Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Italian women scientists 21st-century Italian physicians 21st-century women physicians Cancer epidemiologists Italian epidemiologists Women epidemiologists Genetic epidemiologists Italian oncologists Women oncologists Physician-scientists University of Milan alumni National Institutes of Health people Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty Italian emigrants to the United States

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