Danny Colombara

Danny graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. While in college, he cut his teeth in research through his work in a renal physiology laboratory at Harvard Medical School. Post college, he invested his time and energy in various communities ... beginning with refugees in Lowell, MA and ending with the urban and rural poor in Cambodia. He then applied to the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and earned a master of public health degree in epidemiology / global health in 2010. He continued in the epidemiology PhD program, and spent the 2011-2012 academic year in Beijing on an NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars fellowship. It was during this time in Beijing that his interest in infectious causes of cancer was kindled. He is currently a cancer prevention trainee at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

December 2012