Alan A. Arslan is the Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Associate Professor at the Department of Population Health, New York University. He is a Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded research projects: R21 OH012238, "DNA Methylation Profiles and Breast Cancer among WTC Survivors"; R03 CA96428, “Biomarkers of Ovarian Cancer Risk”; R03 CA95923, “Pregnancy Hormonal Profiles as Biomarker of Breast Cancer Risk”; and R03 CA108394, “Serum Vitamin D, Genetic Polymorphisms & Ovarian Cancer”. He is a co-investigator in the following projects: "The NYU Women's Health Study"; “Estrogen Metabolites, Related Genes and Breast Cancer”; “Pregnancy hormones and lifetime risk of breast cancer in mothers”; “Reduction of Annexin-V in Antiphospholipid Pregnancy Loss”. His research interests focus on the development of novel biomarkers for early detection of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, and ovarian cancer, the second most common cancer of the female reproductive tract.