Who's Who

Alyce Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group


Specialty:

Epidemiology

Academic Degrees

YearDegreeMajorInstitutionTownCountry
2011PhDBiological Sciences in Public HealthHarvard UniversityBoston, MAUSA
2004Master of Public HealthEpidemiology & Environmental HealthBoston University School of Public HealthBoston, MAUSA
1995Bachelor of ScienceBiochemistryWorcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester, MAUSA


Current Research Projects

  • Oncogenicity of natural variants of high-risk human papillomaviruses: an international study of women with and without cervical cancer
    IARC

  • Comparison of gene expression patterns and protein-protein interactions in cells expressing HPV 16 E7 and HPV 18 E7
    Harvard University / Brigham and WomenÂ’s Hospital


Selected Publications

Gulbahce N, Yan H, Dricot A, Padi M, Byrdsong D, Franchi R, Lee D-S, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Mar JC, Calderwood MA, Baldwin A, Zhao B, Santhanam B, Braun P, Simonis N, Huh K-W, Hellner K, Grace M, Chen AA, Rubio R, Marto JA, Christakis NA, Kieff E, Roth FP, Roecklein-Canfield J, DeCaprio JA, Cusick ME, Quackenbush J, Hill DE, Münger K, Vidal M, Barabási AL (2012) Viral perturbations of host networks reflect disease etiology. PLoS Computational Biology 8 : e1002531

Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Deo RC, Padi M, Adelmant G, Calderwood MA, Rolland T, Grace M, Dricot A, Askenzi M, Tavares M, Pevzner S, Abderazzaq F, Byrdsong D, Carvunis A-R, Chen AA, Cheng J, Correll M, Duarte M, Fan C, Ficarro SB, Franchi R, Garg B, Gulbahce N, Hao T, Holthaus AM, James R, Korkhin A, Litovchick L, Mar JC, Pak TR, Rabello S, Rubio R, Shen Y, Singh S, Spangle JM, Tasan M, Wanamaker S, Webber JT, Roecklein-Canfield J, Johannsen E, Barabási A-L, Beroukhim R, Kieff E, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Münger K, Marto JA, Quackenbush J, Roth FP, DeCaprio JA, Vidal M (2012) Interpreting cancer genomes using systematic host network perturbations by tumour virus proteins. Nature 487 : 491-495

Chen AA, Marsit CJ, Christensen BC, Houseman EA, McClean MD, Smith JF, Bryan JT, Posner MR, Nelson HH, Kelsey KT (2009) Genetic variation in the vitamin C transporter, SLC23A2, modifies the risk of HPV16-associated head and neck cancer. Carcinogenesis 30 : 977-981

Scientific Societies Membership

European Association for Cancer Research (Since 2009)
American Association for Cancer Research (Since 2007)
American Society of Human Genetics (Since 2006)