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Balogun Lab

Dr. Onyinye Balogun is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine specializing in the treatment of gynecologic and breast malignancies. As a Cancer and Ethnicity Scholar at the New York Genome Center, she oversees the Polyethnic 1000 project, an initiative to study the genome's contribution to cancer disparities, and serves as the co-Principal Investigator of the Polyethnic 1000 endometrial cancer project.

Onyinye Balogun, MD, MSc

Associate Faculty Member, NYGC
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist

About Dr. Balogun

Latest News & Publications

The Lancet Oncology · July 4, 2025

African self-sufficiency in cancer control.

Balogun Lab Cancer
Brachytherapy · April 28, 2025

3D HDR brachytherapy for cervical cancer in LMIC: Audit of a single institution experience in Lagos, Nigeria.

Balogun Lab Cancer
Brachytherapy · December 26, 2024

Development and implementation of a 3d-HDR brachytherapy program for cervical cancer in a sub-Saharan African centre.

Balogun Lab

April 19, 2021
WCM’s Onyinye Balogun, MD, and Melissa B. Davis, PhD, Appointed Ethnicity and Cancer Scholars for NYGC’s Polyethnic-1000 Initiative

Balogun Lab M. Davis Lab Cancer

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