Ya-Chi Ho
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Biography
Dr. Ho takes a molecular virology, single-cell and genomics approaches to examine HIV persistence and develop HIV cure strategies. Using clinical samples from HIV-infected individuals, the Ho lab investigates host-HIV interactions with particular interests in HIV-1-host RNA landscape (using single-cell RNAseq), CD4 T cell expansion dynamics, HIV-host genome interactions, and HIV-1-specific silencing, and immune escape mechanisms. Dr. Ho was a board-certified infectious disease attending physician in Taiwan. She received her PhD (2013) and postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Dr. Robert F. Siliciano's lab. She was a tenure track instructor (2016) and then an assistant professor (2017) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before she joined Yale School of Medicine in September 2017. As a investigator of the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) and the BEAT HIV Martin Delaney Collaboratory, she actively collaborate with geneticists, bioinformaticians, immunologists and physicians to study HIV-1 persistence. She is currently funded by an NIH R01 grant and an NIH R61/R33 grant as the Principal Investigator.
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral fellowJohns Hopkins School of Medicine (2014)
- PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine (2013)
- MMSNational Taiwan University, Clinical Medicine (2007)
- Clinical fellowNational Taiwan University Hospital (2007)
- ResidentNational Taiwan University Hospital (2005)
- MDNational Cheng Kung University, Medicine (2002)
- Clinical clerkshipDuke University Medical Center (2002)
- Clinical clerkshipYale University (2000)
Activities
- National Institutes of Health and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Joint WorkshopBethesda, United States 2019
- Invited Speaker, Conferences on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)Seattle, United States 2019
- IAS 2019, 10th IAS Conference on HIV ScienceMexico City, Mexico 2019
- BEAT HIV Delaney Collaboratory Annual MeetingPhiladelphia, United States 2019
- Invited Speaker, NIH Strategies for an HIV CureBethesda, United States 2018
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Andy Kaplan Prize | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings on Retroviruses | 2018 |
Gilead Sciences Research Scholar in HIV | Gilead Sciences | 2018 |
Rudolf J. Anderson Fellowship | Yale University | 2018 |
Lois E. and Franklin H. Top, Jr. Yale Scholar | Yale University School of Medicine | 2017 |
Distinguished Alumni Award | National Cheng Kung University | 2016 |
W. W. Smith Charitable Foundation AIDS Research Award | W. W. Smith Charitable Foundation | 2016 |
Phi Beta Kappa | Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society | 2014 |
Michael Shanoff Johns Hopkins Young Investigator Award | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | 2014 |
Howard Hughes International Student Research Fellowship | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2011 |
Best Teaching Resident Award | National Taiwan University Hospital | 2007 |
Scholarship for PhD Studies Abroad | Ministry of Education, Taiwan | 2007 |
Best Resident Award | Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital | 2003, 2004 |
Phi Tau Phi | Phi Tau Phi Honorary Society, Taiwan | 2002 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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Cell Reports Medicine, Cell Press | Board Member | 2020 - Present |
Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Infectious Diseases Society of America | Board Member | 2020 - Present |
NIH Special Emphasis Panel Study Section | Reviewer | 2019 |
PhD Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School | PhD Thesis Defense Committee Member for Radwa Sharaf, Po-Ting Liu, Phillip Tomezsko | 2019 |
American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) | Reviewer | 2018 - Present |
NIH, AIDS Immunology and Pathogenesis Study Section | Reviewer | 2018 |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Assistant Professor of Medicine | 2017 |
DC CFAR Faculty Developmental Grant Study Section | Ad hoc reviewer | 2016 |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Instructor in Medicine | 2015 - 2017 |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Research Associate | 2014 - 2015 |
American Society for Microbiology | Member | 2011 - 2017 |
Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Microbiology
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Microbiology
- Virology Laboratories
- Ya-Chi Ho Lab
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale University
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative