Kathryn Demanelis, PhD

  • Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Education & Training

  • BA, University of Chicago, 2010
  • MA, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2012
  • MA, University of Michigan, 2016
  • PhD, University of Michigan, 2016
Recent Publications

Demanelis K, Jasmine F, Chen L, Chernoff M, Tong L, Shinkle J, Sabarinathan M, Lin H, Ramirez E, Oliva M, Kim-Hellmuth S, Stranger BE, Ardlie K, Aguet F, Ahsan H, Doherty J, Kibriya M, Pierce BL, Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium. Determinants of telomere length across human tissues. Science. 2020

DiGiovanni A, Demanelis K, Tong L, Argos M, Shinkle J, Jasmine F, Kibriya MG, Ahsan H, Pierce BL. Assessing the impact of arsenic metabolism efficiency on DNA methylation using Mendelian randomization. Environmental Epidemiology. 2020

Demanelis K, Argos M, Tong L, Shinkle J, Sabarinathan M, Rakibuz-Zaman M, Sarwar G, Shahriar H, Islam T, Rahman M, Yunus M, Graziano J, Broberg K, Engstrom K, Jasmine F, Ahsan H, Pierce BL. Association of arsenic exposure with whole blood DNA methylation: An epigenome-wide study of Bangladeshi adults. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2019

Demanelis K, Tong L, Pierce BL. Genetically Predicted Telomere Length and Aging-related Traits in the UK Biobank. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences. 2019

Demanelis K, Virani S, Colacino JA, Basu N, Nishijo M, Ruangyuttikarn W, Swaddiwudhipong W, Nambunmee K, Rozek LS. Cadmium Exposure and Age-Associated DNA Methylation Changes in Nonsmoking Women from Northern Thailand. Environmental Epigenetics. 2017

Demanelis K, Sriplung H, Meza R, Wiangnon S, Rozek LS, Scheurer ME, Lupo PJ. Differences in Childhood Leukemia Incidence and Survival between Southern Thailand and the United States: A Population-Based Analysis. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2015

    Honors and Awards
  • Judith Becker Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research on Southeast Asia, 2015
  • International Society for Pediatric Oncology Young Investigator Award, 2015
  • AACR–Abbvie Scholar-in-Training Award, 2016
  • 2019 Semifinalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research, 2019