sknox@hsc.wvu.edu

Dr. Sarah Knox is a Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Director of a new Program in Clinical and Population Epigenetics. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Psychology from the University of Stockholm in Sweden and was granted Board Certification in Sweden to practice Psychology. She then became Associate Professor at Stockholm University and Principal Investigator of her own research group at the Karolinska Institute of Environmental Medicine, where her research focused on Swedish twins.

After returning to the United States, she joined the faculty at Wayne State University as Associate Professor before moving to the National Institutes of Health. At NIH she did cardiovascular epidemiologic research on multi-center studies funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and then became Co-Project Officer of the National Children’s Study (NCS), a longitudinal study of 100,000 live births from pregnancy through age 21 with a broad range of exposures and outcomes.

Her current research interests focus on clinical and population aspects of cardiovascular disease, gene x environment interactions in child development, and epigenetics.  At WVU she teaches a graduate course in Epigenetics and Systems Biology.