2020 Pilot Grant Awardee, Johns Hopkins
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health & Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Sillé’s motto is that a “healthy environment equals healthy people.” She is interested in studying the influence of environmental factors and biological sex on the human immune system and subsequent effects on chronic and infectious disease risk. Dr. Sillé hopes to identify potential targets for intervention to reduce the burden of disease in exposed communities. For her research, she combines her expertise in immunology, toxicology, microbiology, and functional genomics, with metabolomics and exposure epidemiology. Dr. Sillé received an MS in immunology and molecular virology from the University of Groningen in 2004. As a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellow, she received her PhD in immunology in 2010 from the Utrecht University for her work performed at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Institute of Medicine. Prior to her position at JHU, Dr. Sillé completed a postdoctoral fellow position in functional genomics and one in immunotoxicology both at the University of California Berkeley.