Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 6/17 Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar: Dr. Rebecca Fry

    The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences invites you to attend a Toxicology Scholars Colloquium seminar on Monday, June 17, from 10:00am - 11:00am, Pharmacy/Biology Building (PBB), room 338

    Colloquium Speaker: Rebecca Fry, Ph.D., Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director of Graduate Studies, Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina

    Colloquium Title: "The Placental Epigenome as a Driver of Human Health and Disease"

    Research Focus

    Dr. Fry is Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions and the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her lab focuses on understanding how environmental exposures to toxic substances are associated with human disease. With a particular focus on genomic and epigenomic perturbations, her labs uses toxicogenomic and systems biology approaches to identify key molecular pathways that associate environmental exposure with diseases. A current focus in the lab is to study prenatal exposure to various environmental contaminants including arsenic, cadmium, and perflourinated chemicals. Dr. Fry aims to understand molecular mechanisms by which such early exposures are associated with long-term health effects in humans. Ultimately, Dr. Fry’s lab aims to identify mechanisms of contaminant-induced disease and the basis for inter-individual disease susceptibility.


    For more information, contact: Jose Manautou at 860-486-3852