Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

Associate Director for Education, Cancer Center at Illinois

Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar and Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

Areas of Research

Breast Cancer, Cancer Survivors, Food Science, Genes, Genomics, Health Disparities, Human Nutrition, Lung Cancer, Metabolomics, Nuclear Receptors, Stress

Research Program and Theme

Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems
Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology

Research Focus

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan improves the quality of life for postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors by understanding how diet and nutrition affect hormone action. Her lab uses multiscale modeling of omics data from patient samples, animal models, and cell lines to understand the molecular basis of metabolic regulation by nuclear receptors and therapy resistance.

Learn more about Zeynep Madak-Erdogan’s lab.