Ying S. Zou MD, PhD, FACMG
Director of the Cancer Genetics Lab, John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Zou is a genetic lab director at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
As an expert in cytogenetics and clinical molecular genetics, she is interested in the development of clinical cytogenomic and molecular genetics laboratory tests that can be used in the clinical setting for better patient care, personalized medicine, as well as for discovering disease variants and novel cancer biomarkers.
She has been involved in multiple clinical trials. Her research interests are centered on understanding and interpretation of genomic data in human diseases and in cancer development and formation.
Dr. Zou has published more than 91 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is an active committee member of professional societies such as American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), College of American Pathologists (CAP), Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC), and Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT), etc., as well as an editor, board member, and associate editor for several professorial journals.