Research Interests:
- Cancer health disparities
- Immune profiling in breast cancer
- Tumor-immune evolutionary dynamics
Biography
Dr. Omilian joined the Roswell Park faculty in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control. She graduated from Cornell University and earned her PhD degree at Indiana University. Her main research focus is breast cancer disparities, particularly in regard to variation in immune subsets among different populations of women. She also uses evolutionary-genetic sequence analyses coupled with multispectral tissue staining approaches to evaluate the co-evolutionary dynamics between tumor and immune cells in breast cancer.
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Assistant Scientific Director, Biorepository and Laboratory Services
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control
Background
Education and Training
- 2006 - PhD - Indiana University, Bloomington IN
- 2023 - MPH - State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Publications
Omilian AR, Cannioto R, Mendicino L, Stein L, Bshara W, Qin B, Bandera EV, Zeinomar N, Abrams SI, Hong CC, Yao S, Khoury T, Ambrosone CB. CD163+ macrophages in the triple-negative breast tumor microenvironment are associated with improved survival in the Women's Circle of Health Study and the Women's Circle of Health Follow-Up Study. Breast Cancer Res. 2024 May 8;26(1):75. PMID: 38720366
Omilian AR, Sheng H, Hong CC, Bandera EV, Khoury T, Ambrosone CB, Yao S. Multiplexed Digital Spatial Profiling of Invasive Breast Tumors from Black and White Women. Molecular Oncology. 2022 Jan;16(1):54-68. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.13017. Epub 2021 Jun 10. PMID: 34018684.
Omilian AR, Wei L, Hong CC, Bandera EV, Liu S, Khoury T, Ambrosone CB, Yao S. Somatic mutations of triple-negative breast cancer: a comparison between Black and White women. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jul;182(2):503-509. PMCID: PMC7313393.
Abdou Y, Attwood K, Cheng TD, Yao S, Bandera EV, Zirpoli GR, Ondracek RP, Stein L, Bshara W, Khoury T, Ambrosone CB, Omilian AR. Racial differences in CD8+ T cell infiltration in breast tumors from Black and White women. Breast Cancer Res. 2020 Jun 9;22(1):62. PMCID: PMC7285742.