Mitchell Machiela
Earl Stadtman Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Laboratory of Ge
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Machiela received his M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and his Sc.D. in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He joined the Laboratory of Translational Genomics as a postdoctoral fellow in 2012, and transitioned to the Laboratory of Genetic Susceptibility in 2015. In 2016, he was promoted to research fellow. He was appointed to the position of Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in 2017. Dr. Machiela has received numerous awards for his work, including two DCEG Fellowship Achievement Awards and two awards for the DCEG Outstanding Research Paper by a Fellow.
Research Interest
Genetic Mosaicism; Genetic Architecture of Cancer
Publications
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Machiela MJ, Dagnall CL, Pathak A, Loud JT, Chanock SJ, Greene MH, McGlynn KA, Stewart DR. Mosaic chromosome Y loss and testicular germ cell tumor risk. Journal of Human Genetics. 2017 Jun 1;62(6):637-40.
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Scelo G, Purdue MP, Brown KM, Johansson M, Wang Z, Eckel-Passow JE, Ye Y, Hofmann JN, Choi J, Foll M, Gaborieau V. Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma. Nature communications. 2017;8.
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Scelo G, Purdue MP, Brown KM, Johansson M, Wang Z, Eckel-Passow JE, Ye Y, Hofmann JN, Choi J, Foll M, Gaborieau V. Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma. Nature communications. 2017;8.
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Machiela MJ, Hofmann JN, Carreras-Torres R, Brown KM, Johansson M, Wang Z, Foll M, Li P, Rothman N, Savage SA, Gaborieau V. Genetic variants related to longer telomere length are associated with increased risk of renal cell carcinoma. European urology. 2017 Aug 7.
