Senior Investigator
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch

National Institutes of Health

Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics

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Dr. Machiela’s research is focused on understanding how inherited (germline) variation and acquired (somatic) mutations individually and jointly affect cancer risk.

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Dr. Machiela joined the Laboratory of Translational Genomics as a postdoctoral fellow in 2012 and transitioned to the Laboratory of Genetic Susceptibility in 2015. In 2016, he was promoted to research fellow and was appointed to the position of Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch in 2017 and was promoted to senior investigator and awarded NIH scientific tenure in 2024. He received the DCEG Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2020 and the NCI Director's Award in 2021.
 

Dr. Machiela received his B.S. in biology from Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, his M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Sc.D. in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. His doctoral thesis focused on germline genetics and prostate cancer risk.

 

(Source: National Institutes of Health)