Liping Hou
Associate Director
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLiping Hou is an Associate Director and statistical geneticist with 13 years of experience applying advanced statistical methodology to pharmacogenetics, biomarker analysis, GWAS and NGS studies across immune, cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disease areas. She has led large-scale GWAS and sequencing projects (WGS/WES, bulk and single-cell RNA-seq) and translated complex omics signals into actionable genotype–phenotype insights for industry and academic consortia. Proficient in R, R-Shiny, SAS and Python, she builds reproducible pipelines, interactive visualizations and regulatory-ready analyses for clinical and population datasets like UK Biobank. At Janssen/Johnson & Johnson she bridges computational genomics and population analytics, bringing both hands-on coding and strategic leadership to translational programs. Her background as an NIH research fellow on bipolar disorder sequencing consortia underscores a rare combination of deep psychiatric genetics expertise and drug-development-facing analytics.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Genetic Epidemiology, PhD Genetic Epidemiology at Peking Union Medical CollegeBS Public Health, BS Public Health at TongJi Medical College of HUST
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (19)
bcftools9
htmlwidgets8
samtools8
r-package7
beta-testing7
plink7
plug5
shiny5
genome5
javascript4
r4
testing4
bioinformatics4
datatables4
regression4
Programming languages (4)
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