Researchers at UCI want to build biggest database ever on Asian American health
Researchers at UCI want to build biggest database ever on Asian American health
- May 21, 2026
- Sunmin Lee, School of Medicine and CPIP, shares her research with the Orange County Register
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Researchers at UC Irvine believe a new public health study they’re helping to run – the first of its size to focus solely on Asian Americans – will help unravel some mysterious and troubling new trends linking race and cancer. … “Ours will be the first study in the nation to look at this many people from Asian cultures,” said Sunmin Lee, a professor of hematology and oncology in the UC Irvine School of Medicine and co-leader of the cancer control program at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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