Adam de Smith, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the USC Center for Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, and is a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a genetic epidemiologist with a research focus on identifying the causes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer. Dr. de Smith leads studies investigating the role of common and rare genetic variants in ALL etiology, with a particular interest in elucidating the increased ALL risk in individuals of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity. He leads a study of leukemia in children with Down syndrome, the International Study of Down Syndrome Acute Leukemia, investigating genetic and epigenetic variation associated with risk of Down syndrome ALL. He also co-leads the ReCord Study, enrolling patients with banked cord blood samples to investigate the early-life origins of childhood leukemia across molecular subtypes.