Faculty Profile
June MayLin Chan, ScD
Associate Professor, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCSF Box 1695
1600 Divisadero Street, MZ Bldg. A
San Francisco, CA 94143-1695
Dr. June Chan first began working Epidemiology at the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health while attending Harvard College across the river in 1992. In 1994-95, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to work at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Uppsala University, Sweden. She subsequently returned to Boston and received her Sc.D. in Epidemiology in 1998 from the Harvard School of Public Health. As part of her thesis, she was lead author on a publication in Science, reporting on the first prospective investigaton of insulin-like-growth factor-I and prostate cancer risk in the Physicians Health Study. She has also led investigations on total diet, dairy/calicium intake, and supplemental vitmain E, and prostate cancer risk. She was the recipient of Lilienfeld Student Prize (given by the Society for Epidemiologic Research) in 1998, and also received a CaPCURE (Association for Cure of Cancer of the Prostate) Young Investigator Award in 1998.
She was recruited in 2001 to UCSF to become part of the UCSF prostate cancer SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) research team. Here at UCSF, she continues to pursue her interest in hormonal and nutritional risk factors for prostate cancer, and leads the development of a clinical cohort of prostate cancer patients at the UCSF Cancer Center. In 2002, she was awarded a Career Development Award by the CA-Department of Health and the American Association for Cancer Research to examine serum nutrient and bone metabolism markers as predictors for bone metastases. She also teaches in the epidemiology curriculum for the first year medical students (Organs & Cancer Block, formerly Epi 101) and TICR.
Principal Research Interests
- Nutritional and hormonal risk factors for Prostate Cancer Incidence, Recurrence, and Mortality
Principal Teaching Activities
- Epidemiology 101
- Training in Clinical Research (TICR)
- Oncology 101, UCSF Cancer Center
- Epidemiology, Organs & Cancer Blocks
Selected University & Public Service
- Prostate Cancer Prevention and Treatment Program - Steering Committee Member
- Lawrence Livermore Nutrition Laboratory and UCSF Prostate Cancer Research Group
- NCI Prostate Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE), Developmental Project
- UCSF Prostate Cancer Research Program, Investigator
- NCI Inter-Collaborative Prostate Cancer Specialized Program of Research
- Excellence (SPORE), Co-Chair, Epidemiology Group