Dr. Ricky Yuet-kin Leung is an established investigator in the field of hormone and cancer. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong focusing on experimental therapeutics of liver cancer. He completed his postdoctoral training in estrogen receptor and prostate cancer at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass). As an Assistant Professor of the Division of Environmental Genetics and Molecular Toxicology, the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati, his research continues to flourish. His recent work centers around the exciting topics of developmental origin of cancer risk and the impact of environmental estrogens on epigenetics reprogramming. He is currently a full member of American Association for Cancer Research. He is a co-Investigator of two National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences-funded projects focusing on teasing out the epigenetic reprogramming mechanisms of bisphenol A in cancer.

1) Epigenetic regulation of gene expression 2) Stem cells epigenetics in developmental origin of health and disease 3) Estrogen receptors and cancer