Validating measurements in body fluids and tissues of exogenous exposures associated with the development of cancer;
Applying epigenetic approaches (including microRNA) in cancer epidemiology;
Analyzing existing data that otherwise may have gone unexplored, such as pooled analyses of data from multiple studies coordinated into consortia;
Exploring relationship between reported tobacco use and actual delivered amounts of tobacco constituents in epidemiologic studies and other large datasets in order to develop standardized markers of exposure in cancer risk;
Addressing epidemiologic research issues and translate technological approaches developed in the context of other research endeavors to development of biomarkers of risk susceptibility and to cancer epidemiologic settings;
Translating paradigms and findings from basic biological sciences into epidemiologic studies and ensure that epidemiologic findings can be used to identify research directions in the basic sciences;
Improving epidemiologic study data collection, study designs, and analysis; Assessing the reliability and validity of methods and technologies for use in epidemiologic studies and ensure that these methods are sufficiently robust to use in epidemiologic data collection settings;
Developing technologies to identify new cancer-associated infectious agents; and
Developing technologies to identify cancer-associated metabolites in epidemiologic studies.