Josh DeClercq Biostatistician II
email: josh.declercq "at" vumc.org	Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End Ave., Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203

Education

Master of Science in Biostatistics, June 2018
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Bachelor of Science, June 2007
The University of California, Davis
Genetics major

Work Experience

Biostatistician II, June 2018 - present
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Graduate Research Assistant, July 2017 - June 2018
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Advisor: Dr. Leena Choi

Research Associate III, April 2013 - August 2016
Sangamo Biosciences, Inc., Richmond, CA

Lab Technician, August 2010 - August 2012
NYU School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, New York, NY

Biochemist II, October 2007 - July 2010
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Berkeley, CA

Computer Skills

Languages: R, STATA
Reporting software/tools: knitr, LaTeX, Shiny, REDCap, Beamer, Sweave

Memberships

American Statistical Association (joined 2017)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Wang, J., DeClercq, J., Hayward, S., Li, P.W., Shivak, D., Gregory, P., Lee, G., and Holmes, M. (2015) “Highly Efficient Homology-driven genome editing in human T cells by combining zinc-finger nuclease mRNA and AAV6 donor delivery.” Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1121

Wang, J., Exline, C., DeClercq, J., Llewellyn, G.N., Hayward, S., Li, P., Shivak, D., Surosky, R., Gregory, P., Holmes, M. (2015) “Homology-driven genome editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using zinc-finger nuclease mRNA and AAV6 donors.” Nature Biotechnology, doi:10.1038/nbt.3408

Culver, B., DeClercq, J., Dolgalev, I., Yu, M., Ma, B., Heguy, A., and Tanese, N. (2016) “Huntington's Disease Protein Huntingtin Associates with its own mRNA.” Journal of Huntington’s Disease, doi:10.3233/jhd-150177

Leslie, G., Wang, J., Richardson, M., Haggarty, B., Hua, K., Duong, J., Secreto, A., Jordon, A., Romano, J., Kumar, K., DeClercq, J., Gregory, P., June, C., Root, M., Riley, J., Holmes, M., and Hoxie, J. (2016) “Potent and Broad Inhibition of HIV-1 by a Peptide from the gp41 Heptad Repeat-2 Domain Conjugated to the CXCR4 Amino Terminus.” PLoS Pathogens, doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005983