Ohn Chow
Biomedical Sciences PhD Program

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Ohn Chow grew up in Rochester, NY and received his undergraduate education at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where he majored in Biology.  As an undergraduate he worked on research projects related to Drosophila wing movement with Ross MacIntyre and ovarian cancer cytogenetics with Nancy Wang.  After graduation, Ohn worked for two years at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with Vamsi Mootha studying transcription factors involved in type II diabetes.

Ohn's current research focuses on the transcriptional regulation of macrophage function in innate immunity and inflammation, using a combination of host and bacterial genetic reagents and bioinformatic approaches.  Several aspects of this work are performed in collaboration with the laboratory of Prof. Christopher Glass in the UCSD Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine