Lisa A. Cannon-albright

Biography

Dr. Lisa Cannon-Albright is Professor and Division Chief of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences program. As a Genetic Epidemiologist her research interests include computerized genealogy data, high risk pedigree studies, and predisposition gene identification.Dr. Albright has over 3 decades of experience in designing and directing studies of high-risk pedigrees to identify genes predisposing to cancer and other diseases. Genes identified in Utah high risk pedigree studies include NF (Barker et al.); Alport Syndrome (Atkins et al): BRCA1 (Miki et al, 1994); BRCA2 (Tavtigian et al, 1996); p16 (Kamb et al, 1994; Cannon-Albright et al., 1994); and ELAC2/PRCA2 (Tavtigian et al., 2001). Dr. Albright’s research goals are to identify and understand predisposition genes for common traits. Her research group accomplishes this primarily through analysis of genealogy data and the study of extended Utah high-risk pedigrees. She currently directs and is involved in cancer studies of prostate cancer, pancreas cancer, Ewings sarcoma, melanoma, pelvic floor disorders, colorectal cancer, and the exploration of new population-based resources. Her work is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Utah, AACR, Alex’s Lemonade Stand, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.Dr. Albright has over 3 decades of experience analyzing a unique computerized genealogy of Utah, linked to medical data, to describe the heritable contribution to various health-related phenotypes including cancer, influenza mortality, asthma mortality, aneurysm, heart disease, diabetes, and rotator disease (Cannon et al., 1982, Cannon-Albright et al., 1994; 2003; 2005, Horne et al., 2005, 2006; Teerlink et al., 2007; Albright et al., 2008; Weires et al., 2005; Tashjian et al., 2009), among others.

Research Interest

Disease Predisposition Genes Population-Based Studies