Laura Fejerman, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Director, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
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Department
Locations and Contact
Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building
Genome & Biomedical Sciences Facility
451 Health Sciences Dr
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-2884
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Fejerman's research is focused on breast cancer genetics and genetic epidemiology. Specifically, her work aims at explaining epidemiological patterns in breast cancer incidence and outcomes and investigating genomic and environmental factors.
Specific projects include the discovery of common breast cancer risk-associated genetic variants, the development of a breast cancer polygenic risk scores, and exploration of breast cancer gene expression patterns. Additionally, the Fejerman Lab leads a hereditary breast cancer outreach and education program in Southern and Northern California.
Division
Epidemiology
Center/Program Affiliation
Undergraduate School
B.A., Social Anthropology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997
Other School
M.Sc., Human Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England 1999
Other School
Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England 2005
Joan Oettinger Memorial Award for Research Excellence, UC Davis School of Medicine, 2025,
Corazon Award, Vision y Compromiso (for my work engaging community health educators), 2024,
Placer Breast Cancer Endowed Chair, 2023,
John L. Ziegler Outstanding Mentor Award. Master of Science in Global Health, UC San Francisco, 2020,
Chair AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council, 2019-2020,
Access Dr. Fejerman's bibliography here.
Zavala VA, Casavilca-Zambrano S, Navarro-Vásquez J, Castañeda CA, Valencia G, Morante Z, Calderón M, Abugattas JE, Gómez H, Fuentes HA, Liendo-Picoaga R, Cotrina JM, Monge C, Neciosup SP, Huntsman S, Hu D, Sánchez SE, Williams MA, Núñez-Marrero A, Godoy L, Hechmer A, Olshen AB, Dutil J, Ziv E, Zabaleta J, Gelaye B, Vásquez J, Gálvez-Nino M, Enriquez-Vera D, Vidaurre T, Fejerman L. Association between Ancestry-Specific 6q25 Variants and Breast Cancer Subtypes in Peruvian Women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Aug 2;31(8):1602-1609. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0069. PMID:35654312.
Almeida R, Lopez-Macha A, Dugatkin T, Joseph G, Duron Y, Hurtado de Mendoza A, D Graves K, Fejerman L. Community research collaboration to develop a promotores-based hereditary breast cancer education program for Spanish-speaking Latinas. Health Educ Res. 2021 Jul 12;36(3):319-336. doi:10.1093/her/cyab011. PMID:34113985.
Zavala VA, Bracci PM, Carethers JM, Carvajal-Carmona L, Coggins NB, Cruz-Correa MR, Davis M, de Smith AJ, Dutil J, Figueiredo JC, Fox R, Graves KD, Gomez SL, Llera A, Neuhausen SL, Newman L, Nguyen T, Palmer JR, Palmer NR, Pérez-Stable EJ, Piawah S, Rodriquez EJ, Sanabria-Salas MC, Schmit SL, Serrano-Gomez SJ, Stern MC, Weitzel J, Yang JJ, Zabaleta J, Ziv E, Fejerman L. Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Br J Cancer. 2020 Sep 9. doi:10.1038/s41416-020-01038-6. Online ahead of print. PMID:32901135.
Katie M. Marker KM, Zavala VA, Vidaurre T, Lott PC, Navarro Vásquez J, Casavilca-Zambrano S, Calderón M, Abugattas JE, Gómez HL, Fuentes HA, Liendo Picoaga R, Cotrina JM, Neciosup SP, Castañeda CA, Morante Z, Valencia F, Torres J, Echeverry M, Bohórquez ME, Polanco-Echeverry G, Ana P. Estrada-Florez AP, Serrano-Gómez SJ, Carmona-Valencia JA, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Sanabria-Salas MC, Velez A, Donado J, COLUMBUS Consortium, Song S, Cherry D, Tamayo LI, Huntsman S, Hu D, Ruiz-Cordero R, Balassanian R, Ziv E, Zabaleta J; Carvajal-Carmona L; for the COLUMBUS Consortium, Fejerman L. Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer is associated with Indigenous American ancestry in Latin American women. Cancer Res. 2020 May 1;80(9):1893-1901. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-3659. Epub 2020 Apr 3. PMID:32245796.
Shieh Y, Fejerman L, Lott PC, Marker K, Sawyer SD, Hu D, Huntsman S, Torres J, Echeverry M, Bohórquez ME, Martínez-Chéquer JC, Polanco-Echeverry G, Estrada-Flórez AP; COLUMBUS Consortium, Haiman CA, John EM, Kushi LH, Torres-Mejía G, Vidaurre T, Weitzel JN, Zambrano SC, Carvajal-Carmona LG, Ziv E, Neuhausen SL. A Polygenic Risk Score for Breast Cancer in US Latinas and Latin American Women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2020 Jun 1;112(6):590-598. doi:10.1093/jnci/djz174. PMID:31553449.
Fejerman L, Ahmadiyeh N, Hu D, Huntsman S, Beckman KB, Caswell JL, Tsung K, John EM, Torres-Mejia G, Carvajal-Carmona L, Echeverry MM, Tuazon AM, Ramirez C; COLUMBUS Consortium, Gignoux CR, Eng C, Gonzalez-Burchard E, Henderson B, Le Marchand L, Kooperberg C, Hou L, Agalliu I, Kraft P, Lindström S, Perez-Stable EJ, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Genome-wide association study of breast cancer in Latinas identifies novel protective variants on 6q25. Nat Commun. 2014 Oct 20;5:5260. doi:10.1038/ncomms6260. PMID:25327703.
Fejerman L, Hu D, Huntsman S, John EM, Stern MC, Haiman CA, Pérez-Stable EJ, Ziv E. Genetic ancestry and risk of mortality among U.S. Latinas with breast cancer. Cancer Res. 2013 Dec 15;73(24):7243-53. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2014. Epub 2013 Oct 31. PMID:24177181.
Fejerman L, Chen GK, Eng C, Huntsman S, Hu D, Williams A, Pasaniuc B, John EM, Via M, Gignoux C, Ingles S, Monroe KR, Kolonel LN, Torres-Mejía G, Pérez-Stable EJ, González Burchard E, Henderson BE, Haiman CA, Ziv E. Admixture mapping identifies a locus on 6q25 associated with breast cancer risk in US Latinas. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Apr 15;21(8):1907-17. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr617. Epub 2012 Jan 6. PMID:22228098.
Fejerman L, John EM, Huntsman S, Beckman K, Choudhry S, Perez-Stable E, Burchard EG, Ziv E. Genetic ancestry and risk of breast cancer among U.S. Latinas. Cancer Res. 2008 Dec 1;68(23):9723-8. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2039. PMID:19047150.