Genes, Environment, and Health Branch (GEH)

Kimberly McAllister, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator

Tel 984-287-3287
Fax 919-316-4606
[email protected]

P.O. Box 12233

Mail Drop K3-15

Durham, NC 27709

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Kimberly McAllister, Ph.D., received a B.S. in honors biology at the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in human genetics at the University of Michigan. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved identifying the first gene known to cause the disease Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. She completed postdoctoral training and a Department of Defense breast cancer grant in the Division of Intramural Research at NIEHS with research focusing on the development of BRCA2-deficient mice as a model for breast cancer and Fanconi Anemia.

McAllister is presently a program administrator in the extramural division of NIEHS in the Genes and Environment Health Branch. She manages a portfolio of grants in genetic epidemiology and gene-environment interaction studies, human genetics, G x E statistical and bioinformatics methods, basic genetics, DNA repair, animal models of human disease, and comparative biology and population-based model approaches. She represents NIEHS on multiple trans-NIH committees relating to genetics and genomics and is the NIEHS GWAS program administrator. Kim is also involved in the TARGET II consortium and is the NIEHS representative on the Multi-Omics in Health and Disease (MOHD) consortium effort led by NHGRI, which aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies and approaches to study health and disease in a wide variety of populations.

Areas of Specialty:

• Human Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology (Including Functional Genomics Approaches)
• Statistical and Bioinformatics Methods for Gene-Environment Interactions
• DNA Repair and Genomic Stability, Animal Models of Human Disease, and Comparative Biology Approaches (Including Population-Based Model Organism Resources)
• GWAS Program Administrator