Dr. Nyante joined the Department of Radiology in 2014 after receiving her masters and doctoral degrees in Epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Nyante’s main research interests include cancer heterogeneity, the role of hormonal factors in breast cancer risk and prognosis, and mammographic density. Past studies include analyses of change in mammographic density as a predictor of breast cancer prognosis among tamoxifen-treated patients; common genetic variation in adipokine and estrogen-related candidate genes and risk of breast cancer molecular subtypes; smoking and breast cancer risk; and risk factors for rare breast cancer histologic types.