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Krystle Lang Kuhs, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, United States

Dr. Krystle A. Lang Kuhs, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky and Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at the Markey Cancer Center. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and completed postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute. As a molecular epidemiologist, Dr. Kuhs specializes in developing innovative molecular predictors to assess the risk, treatment response, and recurrence of head and neck cancers, with a particular focus on human papillomavirus (HPV)-driven cancers. Dr. Kuhs currently leads three large clinical studies evaluating biomarker-based screening for early detection of HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer – a rapidly increasing cancer for which no screening methods exist. Dr. Kuhs has published over 50 research articles in top journals such as JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Annals of Oncology. Her work has been cited over 1,600 times. Dr. Kuhs has secured over $7M in research funding and currently leads multiple projects, including R01 ($2.6M) and R21 ($250K) awards from the National Institutes of Health and two R01-equivalent awards from the American Cancer Society ($1.2M), and Department of Defense ($1.4M).

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