{{Short description|American medical geneticist}} {{Resume-like|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Lisa Mirabello | image = Lisa Mirabello.png | fields = Genetic susceptibility, pediatric cancer, HPV | workplaces = National Cancer Institute | alma_mater = University at Albany, SUNY, Cornell University, and New York Medical College }}
'''Lisa J. Mirabello''' is an American medical geneticist who researches genetic susceptibility to pediatric cancer and the genomics of HPV carcinogenicity. She is a senior investigator in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
== Life == Lisa Mirabello earned her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences with a focus on molecular population genetics and infectious disease from the University at Albany, SUNY School of Public Health in 2007.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2013-09-20 |title=Lisa Mirabello, Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI |url=https://dceg.cancer.gov/about/staff-directory/mirabello-lisa |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=dceg.cancer.gov |language=en}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> Her dissertation was titled, ''Molecular population genetics of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi throughout Central and South America using mitochondrial, nuclear, and microsatellite markers''. Her dissertation committee members included Jan Conn, Laura D. Kramer, Robert L. Glaser, Gregory Ebel, and Jason Cryan.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Mirabello |first=Lisa J. |title=Molecular population genetics of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi throughout Central and South America using mitochondrial, nuclear, and microsatellite markers |date=2007 |oclc=304436034 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University at Albany, SUNY}}</ref> Mirabello joined the clinical genetics branch of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) as a postdoctoral Cancer Genetics research fellow in 2007.<ref name=":0" />
Mirabello was promoted to research fellow in 2010 and she was appointed as an Earl Stadtman Investigator in 2013.<ref name=":0" /> Before that, Mirabello worked as an environmental chemist at Colombia Analytical service in New York from 2000 to 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8485-0106 |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=orcid.org}}</ref> She was awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in 2019.<ref name=":0" /> Mirabello's research program is focused on genetic susceptibility to pediatric cancer and the genomics of HPV carcinogenicity.<ref name=":0" /> Her most cited work is ''Osteosarcoma incidence and survival rates from 1973 to 2004'', which studied the large differences in incidence and survival rates by age of 3482 patients with osteosarcoma.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mirabello |first1=Lisa |last2=Troisi |first2=Rebecca J. |last3=Savage |first3=Sharon A. |date=2009 |title=Osteosarcoma incidence and survival rates from 1973 to 2004 |journal=Cancer |language=en |volume=115 |issue=7 |pages=1531–1543 |doi=10.1002/cncr.24121 |issn=1097-0142 |pmc=2813207 |pmid=19197972}}</ref> Mirabello has earned a series of accolades over the course of her career, including five DCEG Intramural Research Awards (IRAs) and three NCI Director's Intramural Innovation Awards.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Mirabello, Ph.D. {{!}} Principal Investigators {{!}} NIH Intramural Research Program |url=https://irp.nih.gov/pi/lisa-mirabello |access-date=2025-09-24 |website=irp.nih.gov}}</ref>
== Selected works and publications ==
* Jacobs, K. B., Yeager, M., Zhou, W., Wacholder, S., Wang, Z., Rodriguez-Santiago, B., Hutchinson, A., Deng, X., Liu, C., Horner, M.-J., Cullen, M., Epstein, C. G., Burdett, L., Dean, M. C., Chatterjee, N., Sampson, J., Chung, C. C., Kovaks, J., Gapstur, S. M., & Stevens, V. L. (2012). Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer. ''Nature Genetics'', ''44''(6), 651–658. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2270</nowiki> * Maria Teresa Landi, Chatterjee, N., Yu, K., Goldin, L. R., Goldstein, A. M., Rotunno, M., Mirabello, L., Jacobs, K., William Morton Wheeler, Yeager, M., Bergen, A. W., Li, Q., Consonni, D., Angela Cecilia Pesatori, Sholom Wacholder, Thun, M., Diver, R., Oken, M. M., Jarmo Virtamo, & Albanes, D. (2009). A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma. ''American Society of Human Genetics'', ''85''(5), 679–691. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.09.012</nowiki> * Mirabello, L., Troisi, R. J., & Savage, S. A. (2009). Osteosarcoma incidence and survival rates from 1973 to 2004. ''Cancer'', ''115''(7), 1531–1543. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.24121</nowiki> * Nelson, C. W., & Mirabello, L. (2023). Human papillomavirus genomics: Understanding carcinogenicity. ''Tumour Virus Research'', ''15'', 200258. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvr.2023.200258</nowiki> * The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium. (2020). Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes. ''Nature'', ''578''(7793), 82–93. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1969-6</nowiki> * Wentzensen, I. M., Mirabello, L., Pfeiffer, R. M., & Savage, S. A. (2011). The Association of Telomere Length and Cancer: a Meta-analysis. ''Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention'', ''20''(6), 1238–1250. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-11-0005</nowiki>
== See also ==
* List of University at Albany people
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