Nicola Camp
University of Utah, UT·Public Health & Epidemiology
Many cancers cluster in families. Tracing how disease passes through generations, and how it relates to where people live, requires data that rarely exists in one place.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Genetics
- Topics
Utah Population Database
genealogy
pedigrees
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2027
What they work on
- Assemble and integrate genealogical, medical and vital records for over 11 million linked individuals, and provide data analysis and interpretation for cancer investigations.
- Provide cancer researchers with privacy-protected, tailored data sets and analytic tools, linked to the SEER Utah Cancer Registry and statewide electronic medical records, to identify high-risk cancer families.
- Add geospatial information to population records so cancer patterns can be linked to environmental variables, and guide efficient recruitment of study participants.
More about the research
The Utah Population Database (UPDB) links family trees with medical, vital and geographic records for over 11 million people. Its pedigrees span up to 17 generations. This grant supports UPDB as a shared research resource at Huntsman Cancer Institute, where it serves genetic, epidemiologic, demographic, public health, behavioral and health services research, including statewide population analyses.
Why it matters
Linked family, medical and geographic records let researchers find families at high cancer risk and examine environmental links to cancer across Utah. This supports work to understand what causes cancer and to promote prevention in the state. It also helps cancer researchers recruit study participants efficiently.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Wan Yang
Columbia University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify key environmental and lifestyle risk factors for early-onset colorectal, thyroid and kidney cancer in adults under 50, using mechanistic models combined with data assimilation and national cancer and exposure data.
Michele Marcus
Emory University, GA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine whether cancer incidence and mortality are higher in the Michigan PBB Registry than in the general U.S. population, using standardized incidence and mortality ratios from linked death and state cancer registry data.
Caroline Thompson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Quantify how often cancer is first diagnosed in the emergency department across 15 cancer types in SEER-Medicare records for 1.8 million Americans, and measure disparities by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and geographic isolation.
The school
University of Utah: 58 labs on PI Pages, $789M a year on research, 366 research doctorates a year.
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