Carmen J. Marsit, PhD, is the Rollins Distinguished Professor of Research and executive associate dean for faculty affairs and research strategy at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Marsit was on the faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
Dr. Marsit is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Education
Dr. Marsit received his PhD in Biological Sciences in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he gained training and interest in molecular epidemiology and epigenetics.
Titles & Roles
Rollins Distinguished Professor of Research, Department of Environmental Health
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Strategy
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Professional Memberships
Dr. Marsit holds professional memberships with the American Association for Cancer Research, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Research
The broad goal of Dr. Marsit's research program is to investigate gene environment interactions and their individual and combined impact on human disease, with a particular focus on the impact of the environment and lifestyle on the character of the human epigenome. His research has focused on two distinct, yet highly related biologic processes, that of environmental carcinogenesis and that of human development. In those settings, Dr. Marsit's laboratory studies how epigenetic mechanisms and their alterations are responsible, in a significant part, for cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and common and rare diseases of childhood including behavioral disorders. The laboratory focuses on DNA methylation and miRNA expression as the key epigenetic mechanisms of interest.
