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Dr. Catherine Hoyo

Professor, Biological Sciences

Cathrine Hoyo joined NC State in January 2014 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Environmental Health Science. She is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and director of the Epigenetics, Cancer and the Environment Laboratory, housed in the Toxicology Building on the Centennial Campus. Her research focuses on determining the role of environmentally-induced alterations in the epigenome in the genesis of common chronic diseases. This includes diseases that disproportionately affect minority populations, including cancer and obesity. Hoyo seeks to use this information to improve the prediction, therapy, and prevention of diseases. She is a member of the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) and its Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, comprised of researchers with basic and population science expertise to facilitate translation in vitro and in vivo discoveries that provide mechanistic insights into epidemiologic studies.

Hoyo, a native of Zimbabwe, obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Sierra Leone, Njala College, her master’s degree from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her postdoctoral fellowship was with the UNC Project Malawi in Lilongwe, under the supervision of Irving Hoffman and Myron Cohen. Her first faculty appointment was at North Carolina Central University. She then joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine, where she spent nearly 10 years in the Department of Community and Family Medicine and another two years in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Epidemiology.

Other Members


April 4, 2018

Dr. Cathrine Hoyo

Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University. She is the co-Director of the Integrated Health
April 4, 2018

Dr. Rex L Chisholm

A primary goal of my work is to establish the approaches and benefits of genomics informed personalized medicine. A key element of this is participation in the eMERGE consortium
April 4, 2018

Dr. Kay Davies

Kay Davies was an undergraduate at Somerville College and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was elected as Dr Lee’s Professor of anatomy at the University
April 4, 2018

Dr. Barry R Bloom

A leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health and former consultant to the White House, Dr. Barry Bloom continues to pursue an active
April 4, 2018

Dr. Charmaine D. M. Royal

Dr. Charmaine Royal is an associate research professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy and the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University