Joanne M. Murabito MD
Professor, General Internal Medicine
73 Mt Wayte Ave | (508) 935-3461joanne.murabito@bmc.org
murabito@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Centers
Framingham Heart Study
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Biography
Dr. Murabito is a Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Co-PI at the Framingham Heart Study. Dr Murabito’s area of expertise is in epidemiology and genetic epidemiology. Her current research focuses on identifying the determinants of healthy aging and longevity and reproductive aging in the community including the investigation of genetic and genomic factors. She leads highly productive multidisciplinary international consortia including the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomics Epidemiology (CHARGE) Aging and Longevity working group and the ReproGen Consortium. The Consortia bring together scientists interested in aging, longevity, and reproductive aging (menarche, menopause) and the relation of these traits to health outcomes and gene discovery.
Dr Murabito is also leading the introduction of mobile health into the Framingham Heart Study. She participated in an embedded physical activity trial using a smartphone app or activity tracker and would like to explore use of mHealth in older adults to improve health and function
Dr. Murabito continues to practice primary care at Boston Medical Center.
Education
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
ScM, Harvard University
BA, University of Rochester
Publications
McGrath ER, Scott MR, Buckley RF, Satizabal CL, Werry AE, DeCarli CS, Ghosh S, Vasan RS, Bhasin S, Murabito JM, Beiser AS, Seshadri S. The association between reproductive factors and neurocognitive and neuroimaging markers of brain aging. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Oct; 107(4):1594-1604. PMID: 40924581.
Published on 7/31/2025Bakhshi B, Sultana N, Lin H, Fei D, Vallejo V, Gatanti A, Steenkamp DW, Murabito JM, McKeown NM, Walker ME, Spartano NL. Associations of diet composition and quality with continuous glucose monitor-derived glycemic metrics in a community-based cohort. Am J Clin Nutr. 2025 Oct; 122(4):942-953. PMID: 40749968.
Published on 7/29/2025Ragab AAY, Doyle MF, Chen J, Lunetta KL, Murabito JM. Alcohol consumption and immune cell profiles: Insights from the Framingham Heart Study. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken). 2025 Sep; 49(9):1953-1961. PMID: 40728111.
Published on 7/14/2025Carbonneau M, Li Y, Qu Y, Zheng Y, Wood AC, Wang M, Liu C, Huan T, Joehanes R, Guo X, Yao J, Taylor KD, Tracy RP, Durda P, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Post WS, Blackwell T, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Redline S, Fornage M, Wang J, Ning H, Hou L, Lloyd-Jones D, Ferrier K, Min YI, Carson AP, Raffield LM, Teumer A, Grabe HJ, Völzke H, Nauck M, Dörr M, Domingo-Relloso A, Fretts A, Tellez-Plaza M, Cole SA, Navas-Acien A, Wang M, Murabito JM, Heard-Costa NL, Prescott B, Xanthakis V, Mozaffarian D, Levy D, Ma J. DNA Methylation Signatures of Cardiovascular Health Provide Insights Into Diseases. Circulation. 2025 Aug 19; 152(7):436-449. PMID: 40654086.
Published on 7/10/2025Cai Y, Johnson M, Haessler J, Molstad AJ, Hwang SJ, Joehanes R, Murabito JM, Tahir UA, Franceschini N, Gerszten RE, Sun W, Levy D, Raffield LM, Kooperberg C, Hsu L, Reiner AP. Protein quantitative trait locus analysis in African American and non-Hispanic White individuals. Genome Biol. 2025 Jul 10; 26(1):200. PMID: 40640959.
Published on 6/25/2025Fang Y, Chen J, Mez J, Satizabal CL, Alosco ML, Qiu WQ, Doyle MF, Murabito JM, Lunetta KL. Modeling heterogeneity in cognitive trajectories in the Framingham Heart Study. Front Aging Neurosci. 2025; 17:1471154. PMID: 40636900.
Published on 6/14/2025Buckley RF, Scott M, McGrath ER, Coughlan G, Seto M, Ghosh S, Jacobs HIL, Satizabal CL, Thibault E, Ramachandran V, Murabito JM, Sperling RA, Johnson KA, Jasuja R, Bhasin S, Seshadri S, Beiser AS. Midlife Steroid-Binding Globulin Levels and In Vivo Neuroimaging Measures of Tau in Older Men and Women. Ann Neurol. 2025 Sep; 98(3):524-532. PMID: 40515488.
Published on 6/3/2025Wang X, Zhang Y, Pathiravasan CH, Spartano NL, Benjamin EJ, McManus DD, Lewis GD, Larson MG, Vasan RS, Murabito JM, Liu C, Nayor M. Blood Pressure Responses During Exercise Were Associated With Average Home Blood Pressure and Home Blood Pressure Variability: The Electronic Framingham Heart Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Jun 03; 14(11):e039457. PMID: 40459124.
Published on 5/20/2025Kirmani S, Huan T, Van Amburg JC, Joehanes R, Uddin MM, Nguyen NQH, Yu B, Brody JA, Fornage M, Bressler J, Sotoodehnia N, Ong DA, Puddu F, Floyd JS, Ballantyne CM, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Natarajan P, Conneely KN, Weinstock JS, Carson AP, Lange LA, Ferrier K, Heard-Costa NL, Murabito J, Bick AG, Levy D. Epigenome-wide DNA methylation association study of CHIP provides insight into perturbed gene regulation. Nat Commun. 2025 May 20; 16(1):4678. PMID: 40393957.
Published on 5/5/2025Cao Y, Salvati LR, Chen J, Ragab A, Mez J, Satizabal CL, Alosco ML, Fang Y, Qiu WQ, Lunetta KL, Murabito JM, Doyle MF. The Association of Circulating Immune Cells With Cognitive Function, Brain Imaging, and Incident All-cause and Alzheimer's Dementia: The Framingham Offspring Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2025 May 05; 80(6). PMID: 40168089.
Media Mentions
Published on 9/27/2023
Framingham Heart Study celebrates 75th anniversary
Published on 2/11/2019
Charles River, Medical Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
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