Brian Huang, PhD, MPH

Dr. Brian Huang is a cancer epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His research focuses on the etiologic mechanisms and racial/ethnic disparities of pancreatic, colorectal and lung cancer. Dr. Huang’s work integrates epidemiologic, clinical and multi-omic (e.g., genomic, epigenomic, metabolomic) data from racially/ethnically diverse populations to investigate interethnic differences in the risk and survival of cancer.

• University of California, Los Angeles — BS — Biology
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — MPH — Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• University of California, Los Angeles — PhD — Epidemiology
• Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California — Postdoctoral Fellowship — Cancer and Molecular Epidemiology

• Synergistic contribution of lifestyle, genetic and epigenetic factors to colorectal cancer risk
  NIH · R01CA299916 · Aug 1, 2026 – Jul 31, 2031 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Interplay of smoking, social determinants, and epigenetics on pancreatic cancer disparities
  Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program · Jul 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2029 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Integrating epidemiologic, clinical, genomic and metabolomic profiles to predict pancreatic cancer risk in a multiethnic population
  NIH · R00CA256525 · Jan 9, 2023 – Dec 31, 2025 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Integrating epidemiologic, clinical, genomic and metabolomic profiles to predict pancreatic cancer risk in a multiethnic population
  NIH · K99CA256525 · Feb 15, 2021 – Jan 31, 2023 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Lenz, Heinz-Josef
• Peters, Anne
• Haiman, Christopher
• Setiawan, Veronica
• Buxbaum, James
• Wu-Williams, Anna