Members | Leducq Fellows
Hyeonjeong Lee, DVM, PhD

Hyeonjeong Lee, DVM, PhD is a Postdoctoral fellow in Dan Garry and Mary Garry’s lab at the University of Minnesota. She has expertise in developmental biology, stem cell biology, and porcine embryology.  As a Leducq Fellow, she is dedicated to improving the efficiency of engineering exogenic organs in gene-edited pigs with higher efficiency. Her research focuses on using SCNT, blastocyst complementation, iPSCs, and gene editing, with a particular emphasis on developing humanized organs in pig, especially targeting the heart.

Representative publications include: 

Choe YH, Das S, Ma X, Lee H, Sorensen JR, Hoffman DB, Jo CH, Johnson CP, Cassel N, Garry DJ, Greising SM, Garry MG. Porcine myogenesis in cloned wildtype and MYF5/MYOD/MYF6-null porcine embryo. Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 11;8(1):217. doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-07648-1. PMID: 39934347; PMCID: PMC11814088. go to article

Lee, H. J., Lee, W. J., Hwang, S. C., Choe, Y. H., Kim, S. B., Bok, E. Y., Lee, S. Y., Kim, S. J., Kim, H. O., Ock, S. A., Noh, H. S., Rho, G. J., Lee, S. I., Lee, S. L. (2021). Chronic inflammation-induced senescence impairs immunomodulatory properties of synovial fluid mesenchymal stem cells in rheumatoid arthritis. Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 12(1):502, PMID: 34521481. go to article