Clair A. Francomano

Clair A. Francomano is an American medical geneticist and academic specializing in Ehlers–Danlos syndromes. She is Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University.

Early life, education and training

Clair Ann Francomano was born to Mrs. and Charles J. Francomano, a general practitioner. She attended Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York and participated in programs at the National Institutes of Health and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine as a high school student.

In 2005, Francomano became director of adult genetics for the Harvey Institute of Human Genetics of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She later became director of its Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation Center for Clinical Care and Research.

Francomano has been a member of the Steering Committee for the International Consortium on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Related Conditions. Since 2016, she has chaired the Consortium’s Committee on Classical Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

In 2019 she joined Indiana University as professor of medical and molecular genetics at the School of Medicine and director of the Residency Training Program in Genetics.

Notable publications