Clinical Laboratory Director
The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Ying-Chen Claire Hou is a cliical laboratory director within the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is an assistant professor-clinical within the Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. Claire received her doctoral degree in Genetics from the University of British Columbia where she performed functional screening tests to understand the crosstalk between apoptosis and autophagy. Claire completed her post-doctoral training at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery institute where she performed genome-wide RNAi screens to understand endoplasmic reticulum stress and delineate its association with neurodegenerative diseases. Claire completed her Laboratory Genomics and Genetics (LGG) fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis where she develops strong interests in cancer cytogenetics and cancer genomics.