DCEG Organization Overview

• Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. , Director
• Shelia Hoar Zahm, Deputy Director
• Mission Statement
• Organization Chart
• Office of the Director Staff
• Offices
  • Office of Division Operations and Analysis
  • Office of Education
  • Advanced Technology Center(ATC) & Core Genotyping Facility
  • Administrative Resource Center

• Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Human Genetics

Branches

• Biostatistics
• Clinical Genetics
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology
• Nutritional Epidemiology
• Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
• Radiation Epidemiology
• Viral Epidemiology

The Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) is an intramural research program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), that conducts population and multidisciplinary research to discover the genetic and environmental determinants of cancer and new approaches to cancer prevention. Through its programs in cancer epidemiology, genetics, statistics, and related areas, the Division: (1) conducts broad-based, high quality, high impact research; (2) maintains a national and international perspective, giving priority to emergent issues identified through clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic observations, as well as to public health concerns identified by the Institute, Congress, regulatory agencies, and other appropriate bodies; (3) develops infrastructures, resources, and strategic partnerships in molecular epidemiology across NCI, NIH, and the extramural community; and (4) trains the next generation of scientists in cancer epidemiology and related fields.

Major areas of investigation include lifestyle factors, environmental and occupational exposures, genetic susceptibility and gene-environment interactions, pharmacoepidemiology, infectious agents, radiation exposures, and methodologic research. DCEG is uniquely able to conduct epidemiology research projects that are high risk, that need long-term commitments of funding and scientific staff, that require a national programmatic approach, that need a quick response to emerging public health or scientific issues, that might go unattended by groups without our national and international reach, or that require an interdisciplinary approach that is fostered by the breadth and interactive potential of the intramural research program of NCI and NIH.