Trevor Archer PhD

Dr. Trevor Archer received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1987 at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, after which he did postdoctoral training on chromatin gene transcription and steroid receptors at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. In 1992, Dr. Archer joined the University of Western Ontario in Canada as a National Cancer Institute of Canada Scientist. Dr. Archer was recruited to the NIEHS in 1999 as head of Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression. Subsequently, Dr. Archer was appointed as Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis in February 2003.

In 2014, Dr. Archer became the founding chief of the new Epigenetics and RNA Biology laboratory at NIEHS. Dr. Archer has made numerous original and important contributions to the study of chromatin structure/function, epigenetics, and gene transcriptional regulation in breast cancer cells while publishing ~120 peer-reviewed manuscripts.