Dr. Tamimi’s research focuses on breast cancer risk and prognosis. As a principal investigator on numerous NIH-funded grants and author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications, she has identified a number of genetic, molecular and lifestyle predictors of breast cancer risk. Her foundational work includes studies on early life and environmental exposures’ link to breast disease, molecular characterization of breast tumors, and mammographic density as a predictor of breast cancer.

Dr. Tamimi received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and her master’s degree and doctorate in epidemiology from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Previously, she was an associate professor in epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the co-lead of the Breast Cancer Program at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.