Melanie Babcock, PhD

Melanie Babcock, PhD, is a Clinical Director within the Institute for Genomics Medicine (IGM) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is dual-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics in the specialties of Clinical Cytogenetics and Genomics and Molecular Genetics and Genomics. She completed her PhD training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Genetics and her fellowship training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She then joined Fabric Genomics as a Clinical Genomic Scientist and became a Director of Clinical Interpretation; she was the clinical liaison and managed the caseload for the UK 100,000 Genomes project. Following which, Dr. Babcock served as an Assistant Director then Associate Director at the Magee Genomics Laboratories at UPMC Magee Womens Hospital, where she focused on techniques including aCGH, FISH, and karyotypes to provide clinically relevant information for both constitutional and hematological cancers. During this time, she was also an Assistant Professor for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Currently at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, her main interests are in the application of cytogenetic and molecular techniques to better understand the genetic etiology of disease in both the constitutional and oncology setting.