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Rebecca Fry, PhD, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member with a research focus on understanding how environmental exposures to toxic substances are associated with human disease.

PhD
Carol Remmer Angle Endowed Professor
Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Director of Institute for Environmental Health Solutions
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Genetics

Area of Interest

The Fry 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 use 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. Fry aims to understand molecular mechanisms by which such early exposures are associated with long-term health effects in humans. Ultimately, Fry’s lab aims to identify mechanisms of contaminant-induced disease and the basis for inter-individual disease susceptibility.

Awards and Honors

  • Teaching Innovation Award, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, 2012, 2014
  • Infinite Mile Award, MIT, 2005
  • Phi Beta Kappa, William Smith College, 1995
  • Magna Cum Laude, William Smith College, 1995

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