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Ilir Agalliu, MD, ScD
Assistant Professor

Dept. of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave., Belfer Bldg Room 1315-B
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: 718-430-2929
E-mail: ilir.agalliu@einstein.yu.edu

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Education
2007:Postdoctoral Research Fellow
        Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, U.S.
2004:Sc.D. in Epidemiology
        University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA U.S.
1999:M.S. in Environmental Health
        Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
1998:M.D. in Medicine (Honors)
        University of Tirana School of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.

Research Interests
My research interests are focused in etiologic studies of multi-factorial complex diseases such as prostate cancer, with the goal to advance the knowledge about genetic and environmental risk factors of this disease and develop prevention strategies that may reduce the public health burden of this cancer. I am also interested in examining the role of common genetic variants as well as lifestyle and environmental factors that may predispose to more adverse outcomes and may also contribute to cancer recurrence, progression and cancer-related mortality following primary diagnosis and treatment of cancer. During this research process I have been interested in exploring and applying novel analytical approaches to analyzing exposure-response relationships in etiological studies of cancer.

Areas of current research interest are:
  • Genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer
  • Associations between environmental / occupational exposures and prostate cancer risk
  • Impact of lifestyle factors and screening on prostate cancer risk and prognosis following diagnosis
  • Epidemiologic methods of analyzing exposure-response relationships in genetic epidemiologic studies


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    Division: Epidemiology
    Campus: Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus


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