Adriana Perez, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, has been awarded a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research by the National Cancer Institute. The supplement will allow Dr. Perez to work with Dr. Raymond Carroll of Texas A&M University on the parent grant "Measurement Error, Nutrition and Breast/Colon Cancer," writing papers on diet and cancer, as well as expanding her capabilities in statistical methodology.

Dr. Perez will conduct mentored research on recent statistical methods in: (i) nutritional epidemiology, assessing  the effects of measurement errors when evaluating associations between diet and cancer; (ii) analysis of foods, in terms of nutritional surveillance and diet-disease relationships; and, (iii) microarray experiments, by developing Empirical Bayes standard errors through replication and statistical inference methods to detect non-invasive colon cancer in a 10,000+ gene microarray experiments in mice.