Immaculata De Vivo is Melanie Mason Niemiec ’71 Faculty Codirector of the Sciences at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School for Public Health. She is an international leader in the area of molecular and genetic epidemiology of cancer. De Vivo’s unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impact of natural variation on cancer risk —combining molecular biology, genetics, and epidemiology—has been invaluable to the field of cancer research, and her work has been recognized by the American Cancer Society, from which she received the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant.