Trace Metals and Liver Cancer Seminar

The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility and the Cancer Epidemiology Seminar Series will offer a seminar titled “Trace Metals, Epigenomics and Susceptibility to Liver Cancer.” The seminar will be led by Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, from North Carolina State University.

Dr. Hoyo is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, and co-leader of the Integrative Health Science Facility Core in the Center for Human Health and the Environment. Her research has the overarching goal of improving our understanding of how early development influences risk of common chronic diseases, especially those that exhibit racial/ethnic differences in incidence and/or mortality, including cardiometabolic diseases and some cancers. To accomplish this, her research program has taken a two pronged approach: i) develop and continue to follow a cohort of newborns to identify stable epigenetic targets that are acquired early and are mitotically heritable and are associated with known risk factors for early obesity as such markers can serve as risk markers, and (ii) conduct population-based case control studies to determine whether identified epigenetic targets are associated with risk of these obesity-related chronic diseases in adulthood.

For more information about the CEHS seminar series, contact Michael Sanderson, sanderson@unc.edu