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John S. Witte, PhD
Biographical Sketch
| BS, 1986, Mathematical Sciences, University
of California, Santa Barbara |
| MS, 1988, Industrial Engineering & Operartions
Research, University of California, Berkeley |
| PhD, 1994, Epidemiology, University of California,
Los Angeles |
| Visiting Research Fellow, 1996, Unit of
Genetic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne |
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| 1994-1995 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventative Medicine,
Univeristy of Southern California |
| 1995-1999 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University |
| 1996-2003 |
Adjunct Staff, Cleveland
Clinic Foundation |
| 1999- 2003 |
Associate Professor, Department of epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Canse Western Reserve University |
| 2002-Present |
Study Section Member, NIH EDC-2 |
| 2002-2003 |
Visiting Scientist, International
Agency for Cancer Research, Lyon France |
2003-present |
Professor, Epidemiology
& Biostatistics; and Urology, University of California,
San Francisco |
2005-present |
Co-Leader, Program in Cancer Genetics, Comprehensive
Cancer Center, University of California,
San Francisco |
| 2005-present |
Associate Director, Center for Human Genetics, University
of California, San Francisco
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John Witte, PhD joined the departments of Epidemiology &
Biostatistics and Urology from Case Western Reserve University,
School of Medicine. Witte earned his master’s degree from
the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in epidemiology
from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving
his degree in Los Angeles, he was an Assistant Professor of Preventive
Medicine at the University of Southern California.
At Case, Witte was honored with a teaching award, the 1999-2000
Glennan Fellowship, given for innovation in teaching and education.
He was honored again in 2002-2003 with the Visiting Scientist
award from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in
Lyon, France. Witte’s research program constitutes applied
and methodological genetic epidemiology, with the overall aim
of deciphering the mechanisms underlying complex diseases. His
applied work is focused on prostate cancer, and complements other
work done at the UCSF Prostate Cancer Center. Witte’s genetic
epidemiology studies examine the genetic basis of prostate cancer,
and have included searches across the human genome and work on
specific candidate genes. Successes have included the isolation
of distinct chromosomal regions that appear to harbor prostate
cancer causing genes, and the first genome-wide scan for genes
linked to the aggressiveness of prostate cancer.
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