Friday, August 6, 2021

Fred Tyson is a Program Director in the Genes, Environment and Health Branch of the Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT) at the National Institute of Environmental Sciences. He received his PhD in cell biology and developmental genetics from Rutgers University.   Postdoctoral training in molecular genetics was obtained at Sloan-Kettering followed by additional training in molecular oncology at Duke.  Tyson served as a Senior Staff Fellow at NIEHS in the Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology and as a Senior Scientist at the Saccamanno Cancer Research Institute in Grand Junction, CO. As an NIEHS program officer, Tyson has developed a research portfolio that employs multi-disciplinary approaches to address environmental health science issues.  He has supported diverse research programs in environmental justice, health disparities, genomics, epigenomics, epitranscriptomics and marine toxicology. His current portfolio responsibilities include oversight of grants and programs addressing lung cancer, electronic nicotine delivery systems, oceans and human health as well as programs that address how environmental exposures may perturb epigenomic and epitranscriptomic processes. He has worked with trans-NIH programs as well as leading components of Common Fund supported initiatives as well as working across agencies such as the NSF, FDA, CDC and NOAA to advance environmental health science research priorities.