Jennifer M. Fettweis

Assistant Professor - Project Director, Vaginal Microbiome Consortium Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia United States

Biography

Jennifer M. Fettweis, PhD, is the project director for the Vaginal Microbiome Consortium at Virginia Commonwealth University and an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been a fellow in the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity since 2009. Dr. Fettweis was awarded a BA in mathematics and economics from the University of Virginia and a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She coordinates two projects funded through the NIH’s Human Microbiome Project: the Vaginal Human Microbiome Project and the Multi-‘Omic Microbiome Study-Pregnancy Initiative. She also founded the Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry at VCU, which houses a participant registry and a biorepository, to promote collaboration among researchers and sharing and reuse of data and samples. Her primary research interests include host-microbiome interactions in women’s health with a focus on understanding how these interactions impact women's health, pregnancy outcomes and transmission of the microbiome across generations.