Nancy J. Cox, PhD

Dr. Nancy Cox is a quantitative human geneticist and the Mary Phillips Edmonds Gray Professor of Genetics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Cox’s research interests focus on large-scale integration of genomics with methods for the analysis of genome data on translational phenotypes and common diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Cox is a member of the Internal Advisory Committee and an investigator in the Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Dr. Cox completed her doctoral degree in human genetics at Yale University, a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric genetics at Washington University, and a postdoctoral fellowship in the genetics of diabetes at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cox joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2015.