Bu-tian Ji
Staff Scientist
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Occupational and
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Bu-Tian Ji received a Bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1987 and an M.P.H. in epidemiology in 1990 from the Shanghai Medical University. In 1998, he received a Dr.P.H. in epidemiology from the Columbia University School of Public Health. He joined the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) as an IRTA/CRTA postdoctoral fellow in 1997 and became a staff scientist in 1999. Dr. Ji plays a leadership role in the Shanghai Women’s Health Study, a large prospective cohort study, for which he oversees biological sample processing for all nested case-control studies. He is also involved in the Chinese Benzene Cohort Study and the Multi-center Case-Control Study of Lymphoid Neoplasms in Asia (AsiaLymph). He makes significant contributions to the questionnaire data management, data retrieval quality control, and case verification for lung cancer and hematopoietic disorders in the Chinese benzene study. In the AsiaLymph study, he evaluates the quality of the interview data and monitors the field study progress. As a cancer epidemiologist, his studies focus on cancer risk related to lifestyle factors, occupational exposures, and other environmental risk factors. Dr. Ji received the NCI DCEG Intramural Research Training Award in 1999. He has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and has been an invited speaker
Research Interest
"Occupational exposure and cancer risk; Nightshift work and cancer risk; Physical activity and other lifestyle factors and cancer risk "
Publications
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Seow WJ, Matsuo K, Hsiung CA, Shiraishi K, Song M, Kim HN, Wong MP, Hong YC, Hosgood III HD, Wang Z, Chang IS. Association between GWAS-identified lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci and EGFR mutations in never-smoking Asian women, and comparison with findings from Western populations. Human molecular genetics. 2016 Dec 26;26(2):454-65.
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Wong JY, Bassig BA, Seow WJ, Hu W, Ji BT, Blair A, Silverman DT, Lan Q. Lung cancer risk in welders and foundry workers with a history of heavy smoking in the USA: The National Lung Screening Trial. Occup Environ Med. 2017 Jan 9:oemed-2016.
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Wong JY, Bassig BA, Vermeulen R, Hu W, Ning B, Seow WJ, Ji BT, Downward GS, Katki HA, Barone-Adesi F, Rothman N. Sleep Duration across the Adult Lifecourse and Risk of Lung Cancer Mortality: A Cohort Study in Xuanwei, China. Cancer Prevention Research. 2017 Apr 4.
