Dorothy A. Lerit, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Emory University School of Medicine.
Memberships and Affiliations
Dorothy is a member of the Cancer Cell Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute. She is affiliated with the Emory Laney Graduate School programs in Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology (BCDB) and Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), and she is a member of the GMB and BCDB Executive Committees. Dorothy is also a research mentor for the Emory Fellowships in Research and Teaching (FIRST) NIH K12 IRACDA program. She is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), Genetics Society of America (GSA), and the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB).
Education
Dorothy completed undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she was a University Scholar Merit Award recipient and graduated magna cum laude. She earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University under the mentorship of Dr. Elizabeth Gavis, where she was supported by a T32 fellowship. Dorothy was an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Nasser Rusan at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, where she was also supported by a Lenfant Biomedical Research Fellowship and an NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22). She was recruited to Emory in 2016 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. In 2022, she was promoted to Associate Professor.
SELECTED HONORS
2015 - NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22)
2020 - Emory University School of Medicine ‘Researcher Appreciation Day’ Awardee
2020 - Emory University School of Medicine Hidden Gem Award
2022 - ASCB Günter Blobel Early Career Award