Dr. Jennifer Freeman

Dr. Jennifer L. Freeman is a professor of toxicology in the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA. She received her Ph.D. in environmental toxicology and molecular cytogenetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She did her postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. She won the Women in Toxicology Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Society of Toxicology in 2020, the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from Purdue University in 2019, and the Sigma Xi Mid-Career Research Award in 2018. The interests of her laboratory are to define the underlying genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of the toxicity of environmental stressors in the developmental origin of health and disease (DOHaD) paradigm.