Colon Cancer, Nuts, and Early Onset

Dr. Daniel Rosenberg, professor of medicine, Health Net Inc. Chair in Cancer Biology, and investigator in UConn Health's Center for Molecular Oncology, is on the trail of the connection between our digestive system's microbiome and colon cancer. His research has shown how walnut consumption can impact gut bacteria in a way that seems to fight off inflammation in some people. He's also investigating why colon cancers are turning up more in younger people, in their 40s and even 30s.

(March 2022, Daniel Rosenberg, Carolyn Pennington, Chris DeFrancesco)

Daniel W. Rosenberg, Ph.D., faculty profile
https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Rosenberg-Daniel

UConn Health Center for Molecular Oncology
https://health.uconn.edu/molecular-oncology/

Walnut study
https://starr.uchc.edu/Study/StudyDetails.aspx?ID=1796
gajewska@uchc.edu, pappleton@uchc.edu

Peanut study
https://starr.uchc.edu/Study/StudyDetails.aspx?ID=1704
nfan@uchc.edu

Masako Nakanishi, Ph.D., Center for Molecular Oncology
https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Nakanishi-Masako

John Birk, MD, chief, UConn Health Division of Gastroenterology
https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Birk-John

Haleh Vaziri, MD, UConn Health gastrotenterologist
https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Vaziri-Haleh

George Weinstock, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Weinstock-George