Dr. Nichole Owen is currently an Associate Clinical Director of Next Generation Cytogenetics at Baylor Genetics. In addition to her role at BG, Dr. Owen is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and participates in fellow training.

Dr. Owen graduated with dual bachelor’s degrees in genetic & cell biology and microbiology from Washington State University in Pullman, WA. During this time, she began studying chromosomes, particularly meiotic recombination, and nondisjunction. She attended graduate school at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), where she studied genome instability disorders and chromosome instability and graduated with her PhD in molecular and medical genetics. Upon graduation, she continued with a postdoctoral fellowship at OHSU where she studied how acquired DNA repair defects underly the good responder phenotype in certain subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia.

Dr. Owen joined Baylor Genetics and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) as a fellow in the Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellowship program in 2018. She is currently board eligible and will take the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics exam this year.

Instructor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, United States

Assistant Clinical Director
Baylor Genetics
Houston, TX, United States

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

PhD from Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

BA from Washington State University
Pullman, Washington