David J. Hunter MBBS, MPH, ScD

David Hunter’s principal research interests are the etiology of cancer, particularly breast, prostate, pancreas and skin cancers. He analyzes inherited susceptibility to cancer and other chronic diseases using molecular techniques and gene-environment interactions.

This work is largely based in subcohorts of the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Dr. Hunter supervised laboratories at the Harvard School of Public Health in which gene sequence information from these samples is obtained.