Randy Jirtle
Bio
Professor Randy L. Jirtle joined the Duke University Department of Radiology in 1977, and headed the Epigenetics and Imprinting Laboratory until 2012. He is now a Professor of Epigenetics in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC where he collaborates with Professor Cathrine Hoyo.
Jirtle’s research interests are in epigenetics, genomic imprinting, and the fetal origins of disease susceptibility. He is known for his groundbreaking studies linking environmental exposures early in life to the development of adult diseases through changes in the epigenome, and for determining the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting in mammals and the human imprintome. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, a book on Liver Regeneration and Carcinogenesis, and two books on Environmental Epigenomics in Health and Disease.
He was honored in 2006 with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2007, he was a featured scientist on the NOVA television program on epigenetics entitled Ghost in Your Genes, and was nominated for Time Magazine’s