Whitney Maxwell
University of Utah, UT·Medicine & Clinical Research
Some people inherit gene variants that greatly raise their risk of cancer. Turning genetic discoveries into better care for these families requires knowing when genetic testing is useful, how best to explain risk, and how to manage that risk over time.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Genetics
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
genetic counseling
hereditary cancer
inherited cancer predisposition
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2027
What they work on
- Provide cancer genetics expertise, genetic counseling services and counseling interventions to cancer center researchers studying hereditary cancer across the State of Utah.
- Support research on the clinical usefulness of genetic testing, ways to communicate cancer risk and deliver counseling, and management of inherited cancer predispositions, by identifying patient groups and collecting long-term outcomes data.
- Help investigators design studies that incorporate genetic information and address the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic analysis.
More about the research
This grant supports the Genetic Counseling Shared Resource at Huntsman Cancer Institute. The resource provides genetics expertise for basic, clinical and behavioral research on hereditary cancer.
Why it matters
Families with inherited cancer predispositions need accurate testing, clear risk communication and sound prevention plans. Supporting research on these questions statewide in Utah could improve how hereditary cancer risk is identified and managed. It also informs national guidelines for genetic testing and hereditary cancer care.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Megan Roberts
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Adapt the paper-based Let's Talk workbook into an interactive online tool that helps patients with Lynch syndrome tell relatives about genetic risk, guided by patient preferences and user feedback.
Inmaculada De Melo-Martin
Stanford University, CA·Social Science
Analyze the ethical meanings and practices of human virome research in clinical and public health settings through normative analysis, coordinated across the VAST Center's cores.
Mary Armanios
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Genetics
Identify additional large-effect inherited variants that cause long telomere syndromes in cancer-prone families, extending beyond the POT1 mutations and the two other telomere genes already found to phenocopy them.
The school
University of Utah: 58 labs on PI Pages, $789M a year on research, 366 research doctorates a year.
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