Marisa Bartolomei, PhD
Board Member
Professor
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Marisa Bartolomei is the Perelman Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and co- Director of the Epigenetics Institute at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She received her BS from the University of Maryland and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. In 1993, Dr. Bartolomei joined the faculty at University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bartolomei received the 2006 Society for Women's Health Research Medtronics Prize for contributions to Women's Health. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.
Dr. Bartolomei is the recipient of the 2017 Genetics Society Medal (UK Genetics Society), 2022 Society for the SSR Research Award and is a Member of National Academy of Sciences. She also received the 2024 MOD Richard B. Johnston, Jr. MD Prize. Dr. Bartolomei’s research addresses the epigenetic mechanisms of genomic imprinting.