Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D

Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, was awarded a $3.65 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a five-year study of the etiology of pancreas cancer cases in Connecticut. His co-investigator on the study, Herbert Yu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology, also received $3.2 million from the NIH for a five-year study of mitogenic growth factors and endometrial cancer. Risch is co-investigator on Yu’s study.