Joie Olayiwola, PhD
Assistant Professor-Clinical
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Polaris Innovation Centre
2001 Polaris Parkway, Room 2020
Columbus, OH 43240
Biosketch
Joie Olayiwola, PhD, is an Assistant Professor-Clinical in the Department of Pathology and serves as a Laboratory Director in the Cytogenetics Laboratory. Dr. Olayiwola earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Tulane University School of Medicine, where she co-created an adult mouse model to study BRCA1 loss, and the long-term effects on homology-directed repair (HDR) in various tissues with and without additional DNA damage. She completed her clinical laboratory genetics and genomics fellowship training at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Dr. Olayiwola's research interests are in the cytogenomics of hematologic malignancies, and equitable access to genetics and genomics testing.
Board Certifications
American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Laboratory Genetics and Genomics
Academic and Medical Appointments
2023-Present Assistant Professor-Clinical, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2023-Present Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Education and Training
2021-2023 Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellowship, Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
2015-2021 Ph.D., Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2009-2013 B.S., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Selected Publications
- Tonnessen-Murray, C. A., Frey, W. D., Rao, S. G., Shahbandi, A., Ungerleider, N. A., Olayiwola, J. O., Murray, L. B., Vinson, B. T., Chrisey, D. B., Lord, C. J., & Jackson, J. G. (2019). Journal of cell biology, 218(11), 3827 3844. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201904051 PMID: 31530580
- Shahbandi, A., Rao, S. G., Anderson, A. Y., Frey, W. D., Olayiwola, J. O., Ungerleider, N. A., & Jackson, J. G. (2020). BH3 mimetics selectively eliminate chemotherapy-induced senescent cells and improve response in TP53 wild-type breast cancer. Cell death and differentiation, 27(11), 3097 3116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-020-0564-6 PMID:32457483