Sarah Knox, PhD
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 she did psychophysiological research.
After returning to the United States, she joined the faculty at Wayne State University as Associate Professor of Psychiatry before moving to the National Institutes of Health. At NIH she did research in cardiovascular epidemiology and child development at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), respectively. At NICHD she was involved in designing the protocol and supervising the Coordinating Center for the National Children's Study (NCS), a longitudinal study of 100,000 live births from pregnancy through age 21. That study's objective is to investigate a broad range of physical and psychosocial exposures on developmental outcomes in children.
Dr. Knox's current research interests focus on a systems biology approach to studying gene x environment interactions in chronic disease, specifically cardiovascular disease and cancer. At WVU she teaches a graduate course in Epigenetics and Systems Biology.