Laura Fejerman, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Placer Breast Cancer Endowed Chair, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine; Co-Director, Women's Cancer Care and Research Program; Co-Director, Latinos United for Cancer Health Advancement Initiative; Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Specialties:
Cancer,
Locations and Contact Info
Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building
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About Laura Fejerman
Specialties
Cancer
Department
Division
Epidemiology
Center/Program Affiliation
Gender
Female
Languages Spoken
Spanish
Bio
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Fejerman's research focuses on the discovery and understanding of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to breast cancer risk and survival and that could be used as targets for prevention and therapy, with special interest in self-identifying Hispanic/Latina women in the US and in Latin America. Additionally, Dr. Fejerman contributes to the elimination of cancer health disparities by developing and implementing programs for cancer education, screening, and navigation in underserved communities in California.
Education
Undergraduate School
B.A., Social Anthropology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997
Other Schools
M.Sc., Human Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England 1999
Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England 2005
Professional Memberships
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
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Honors and Publications
Honors and Awards
John L. Ziegler Outstanding Mentor Award. Master of Science in Global Health, UC San Francisco, 2020
Pathways to Discovery Short-Term Mentor Award, UC San Francisco, 2017
Pacesetter Award, The National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, 2017
Crede Award for Research Excellence, Division of General Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco, 2016
Publication selected by NCI’s Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) for Research Highlights of 2014, 2014
Select Recent Publications
Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/laura.fejerman.1/bibliography/42249696/public/?sort=date&direction=descending
Zavala VA, Casavilca-Zambrano S, Navarro-Vásquez J, Castañeda CA, Valencia G, Morante Z, Calderón M, Abugattas JE, Gómez H, Fuentes HA, Liendo-Picoaga R, Cotrina JM, Monge C, Neciosup SP, Huntsman S, Hu D, Sánchez SE, Williams MA, Núñez-Marrero A, Godoy L, Hechmer A, Olshen AB, Dutil J, Ziv E, Zabaleta J, Gelaye B, Vásquez J, Gálvez-Nino M, Enriquez-Vera D, Vidaurre T, Fejerman L. Association between Ancestry-Specific 6q25 Variants and Breast Cancer Subtypes in Peruvian Women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Aug 2;31(8):1602-1609. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0069. PMID:35654312.
Almeida R, Lopez-Macha A, Dugatkin T, Joseph G, Duron Y, Hurtado de Mendoza A, D Graves K, Fejerman L. Community research collaboration to develop a promotores-based hereditary breast cancer education program for Spanish-speaking Latinas. Health Educ Res. 2021 Jul 12;36(3):319-336. doi:10.1093/her/cyab011. PMID:34113985.
Zavala VA, Bracci PM, Carethers JM, Carvajal-Carmona L, Coggins NB, Cruz-Correa MR, Davis M, de Smith AJ, Dutil J, Figueiredo JC, Fox R, Graves KD, Gomez SL, Llera A, Neuhausen SL, Newman L, Nguyen T, Palmer JR, Palmer NR, Pérez-Stable EJ, Piawah S, Rodriquez EJ, Sanabria-Salas MC, Schmit SL, Serrano-Gomez SJ, Stern MC, Weitzel J, Yang JJ, Zabaleta J, Ziv E, Fejerman L. Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Br J Cancer. 2020 Sep 9. doi:10.1038/s41416-020-01038-6. Online ahead of print. PMID:32901135.
Katie M. Marker KM, Zavala VA, Vidaurre T, Lott PC, Navarro Vásquez J, Casavilca-Zambrano S, Calderón M, Abugattas JE, Gómez HL, Fuentes HA, Liendo Picoaga R, Cotrina JM, Neciosup SP, Castañeda CA, Morante Z, Valencia F, Torres J, Echeverry M, Bohórquez ME, Polanco-Echeverry G, Ana P. Estrada-Florez AP, Serrano-Gómez SJ, Carmona-Valencia JA, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Sanabria-Salas MC, Velez A, Donado J, COLUMBUS Consortium, Song S, Cherry D, Tamayo LI, Huntsman S, Hu D, Ruiz-Cordero R, Balassanian R, Ziv E, Zabaleta J; Carvajal-Carmona L; for the COLUMBUS Consortium, Fejerman L. Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer is associated with Indigenous American ancestry in Latin American women. Cancer Res. 2020 May 1;80(9):1893-1901. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-3659. Epub 2020 Apr 3. PMID:32245796.
Shieh Y, Fejerman L, Lott PC, Marker K, Sawyer SD, Hu D, Huntsman S, Torres J, Echeverry M, Bohórquez ME, Martínez-Chéquer JC, Polanco-Echeverry G, Estrada-Flórez AP; COLUMBUS Consortium, Haiman CA, John EM, Kushi LH, Torres-Mejía G, Vidaurre T, Weitzel JN, Zambrano SC, Carvajal-Carmona LG, Ziv E, Neuhausen SL. A Polygenic Risk Score for Breast Cancer in US Latinas and Latin American Women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2020 Jun 1;112(6):590-598. doi:10.1093/jnci/djz174. PMID:31553449.
Fejerman L, Ahmadiyeh N, Hu D, Huntsman S, Beckman KB, Caswell JL, Tsung K, John EM, Torres-Mejia G, Carvajal-Carmona L, Echeverry MM, Tuazon AM, Ramirez C; COLUMBUS Consortium, Gignoux CR, Eng C, Gonzalez-Burchard E, Henderson B, Le Marchand L, Kooperberg C, Hou L, Agalliu I, Kraft P, Lindström S, Perez-Stable EJ, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Genome-wide association study of breast cancer in Latinas identifies novel protective variants on 6q25. Nat Commun. 2014 Oct 20;5:5260. doi:10.1038/ncomms6260. PMID:25327703.
Fejerman L, Hu D, Huntsman S, John EM, Stern MC, Haiman CA, Pérez-Stable EJ, Ziv E. Genetic ancestry and risk of mortality among U.S. Latinas with breast cancer. Cancer Res. 2013 Dec 15;73(24):7243-53. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2014. Epub 2013 Oct 31. PMID:24177181.
Fejerman L, Chen GK, Eng C, Huntsman S, Hu D, Williams A, Pasaniuc B, John EM, Via M, Gignoux C, Ingles S, Monroe KR, Kolonel LN, Torres-Mejía G, Pérez-Stable EJ, González Burchard E, Henderson BE, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Admixture mapping identifies a locus on 6q25 associated with breast cancer risk in US Latinas. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Apr 15;21(8):1907-17. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr617. Epub 2012 Jan 6. PMID:22228098.
Fejerman L, John EM, Huntsman S, Beckman K, Choudhry S, Perez-Stable E, Burchard EG, Ziv E. Genetic ancestry and risk of breast cancer among U.S. Latinas. Cancer Res. 2008 Dec 1;68(23):9723-8. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2039. PMID:19047150.