Mariana Carla Stern

Professor
Research Preventive medicine and Urology
California Southern University
United States of America

Academician Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Stern obtained her undergraduate training in Biology at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Sciences, in Argentina with a focus on molecular and evolutionary genetics. She obtained her PhD in Cancer Biology at the University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center and pursued postdoctoral training in molecular epidemiology at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. At USC, she is currently Director for the Molecular Epidemiology MS/PhD Program and teaches to undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in graduate programs in Preventive Medicine. Her overall research interests cut across the following main themes: diet and cancer, clinical epidemiology of prostate cancer, and cancer health disparities in Latino populations.

Research Intrest

Diet and Cancer

List of Publications
Shahabi A, Lewinger JP, Ren J, April C, Sherrod AE, Hacia JG, Daneshmand S, Gill I, Pinski JK, Fan JB, Stern MC. Novel gene expression signature predictive of clinical recurrence after radical prostatectomy in early stage prostate cancer patients. The Prostate. 2016 Oct 1;76(14):1239-56.
Lee E, Liu L, Zhang J, Stern MC, Barzi A, Hwang A, Kim AE, Hamilton AS, Wu AH, Deapen D. Stomach cancer disparity among Korean Americans by tumor characteristics: comparison with non-Hispanic whites, Japanese Americans, South Koreans, and Japanese. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers. 2017 Apr 1;26(4):587-96.
Hines LM, Sedjo RL, Byers T, John EM, Fejerman L, Stern MC, Baumgartner KB, Giuliano AR, Torres-Mejia G, Wolff RK, Harrall KK. The Interaction between Genetic Ancestry and Breast Cancer Risk Factors among Hispanic Women: The Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers. 2016 Dec 8.

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