Rosemarie De La Rosa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. de la Rosa is an Environmental Health Scientist with expertise in environmental toxicology and molecular epidemiology, who is passionate about social determinants of health and environmental justice.

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Her long-term research goal is to understand how the social environment and context during early and middle childhood "gets under the skin” and influences susceptibility to the toxic effects of chemical exposures in low-income communities of color over the life course. As a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, she is working with Dr. Neeta Thakur to examine how the early-life social environment influences biomarkers of stress in the Pediatric ACEs Screening and Resiliency Study using an allostatic load framework.

Awards

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• University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2019-2021

Education & Training

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• PhD Environmental Health Science University of California, Berkeley 2019
• MPH Environmental Health Science University of California, Berkeley 2014
• BS Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010

Publications (5)

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ChileSite-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific)Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseModels, TheoreticalArsenicLuciferasesReceptors, GlucocorticoidPolymorphism, GeneticMethyltransferasesToxicologyGene FrequencyGlucocorticoidsLinkage DisequilibriumBiological AssayHydrocortisone

• Cell-Based Bioassay to Screen Environmental Chemicals and Human Serum for Total Glucocorticogenic Activity.
  Environmental toxicology and chemistry 2020 de la Rosa R, Vazquez S, Tachachartvanich P, Daniels SI, Sillé F, Smith MT
• Application of generalized concentration addition to predict mixture effects of glucocorticoid receptor ligands.
  Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA 2020 de la Rosa R, Schlezinger JJ, Smith MT, Webster TF
• Associations between arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (AS3MT) and N-6 adenine-specific DNA methyltransferase 1 (N6AMT1) polymorphisms, arsenic metabolism, and cancer risk in a chilean population.
  Environmental and molecular mutagenesis 2017 de la Rosa R, Steinmaus C, Akers NK, Conde L, Ferreccio C, Kalman D, Zhang KR, Skibola CF, Smith AH, Zhang L, Smith MT
• Using exposomics to assess cumulative risks and promote health.
  Environmental and molecular mutagenesis 2015 Smith MT, de la Rosa R, Daniels SI
• Restriction of intestinal stem cell expansion and the regenerative response by YAP.
  Nature 2012 Barry ER, Morikawa T, Butler BL, Shrestha K, de la Rosa R, Yan KS, Fuchs CS, Magness ST, Smits R, Ogino S, Kuo CJ, Camargo FD