Associate Professor
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Email: ting-yuan.cheng@osumc.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
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Dr. Cheng is an associate professor in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at The Ohio State University and a member of the Cancer Control Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. His laboratory is devoted to understanding cancer etiology and factors that affect cancer outcomes in different racial and ethnic populations.
His main research areas are (1) molecular pathological epidemiology in energy balance and cancer; (2) gene-environmental interaction in nutrition-related pathways; (3) cancer health disparities in relation to race/ethnicity and sex. Dr. Cheng leads NIH/NCI projects aiming to understand the mammalian target of rapamycin kinase (MTOR) as a molecular mechanism of how energy imbalance influences the etiology and outcomes of breast cancer.
Dr. Cheng has a strong record of research collaboration with large, national-level studies. He serves as an editorial board member of JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2013
- MHS, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007
- MS, Environmental & Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University, 2000
- BS, Public Health, Chung Shan Medical College, 1998
