
Professor Kimmie Ng
Meet Kimmie, a co-investigator on OPTIMISTICC
Kimmie is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Founding Director of the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Director of Translational Research in the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Her research focuses on elucidating the underlying biology of young-onset colorectal cancer, as well as identifying dietary, plasma, and molecular predictors of improved survival in all patients with colorectal cancer, with a special interest in the vitamin D pathway and the microbiome. She is the recipient of numerous NIH, foundation, and industry grants, and serves as a member of the Gastrointestinal Steering Committee of the National Cancer Institute.