ABMRC 418 Alumni
All the best to the former ABMRC 418 members
Jo Woon Seok (석조운), R.N. & Ph.D.
Dr. Seok has demonstrated physiological roles of DEXRAS1 in bone morphology and bone formation. In addition, Dr. Seok has investigated molecular mechanisms of how DEXRAS1 plays a key role to modulate pathogenesis of Cushing Syndromes using animal models. After Ph.D. program, she returned to Yonsei University College of Nursing to pursue her professional academic career. Dr. Seok has been appointed as Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University College of Nursing.
Bo Kyung Yoon (윤보경), M.D. & Ph.D.
Dr. Yoon has investigated metabolic pathways of various cancer cells including gastric cancer to survive under environmental stress. With metabolic flux, Dr. Yoon has demonstrated that chemo-resistant gastric cancer has unique nutrient-uptake mechanism to survive in the condition of nutritional stress. As being trained to analyze immune profile in various tissues using multiomics, Dr. Yoon has developed her professional carreer in immunology and has been appointed as Assistant Professor at Dept of Microbiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine.
Hyeonhui Kim (김현희), Ph.D.
Dr. Kim has interested in the molecular mechanisms of how cancer cells survive under environmental stress such as nutritional stress. As trained to analyze transcriptomics, Dr. Kim has pursued to explore her research field into genomics in the basis of whole genome sequencing data. After being trained with metabolic plasticity in cancers, metabolic syndromes with transcriptomics and genomics, Dr. Kim has joined the laboratory of Dr. Alan Saltiel (Univ. of California at San Diego) as Postdoctoral Research Associate from February 2024.
Nahee Hwang (황라희), Ph.D.
Dr. Hwang has been trained to investigate the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and migration in gastric cancer. In addition, Dr. Hwang has been trained to develop her techniques in the field of omics including single cell RNA seq, spatiotranscriptomic analysis, and genomics using human PBMC samples from COVID-19 vaccination with myocarditis and colonic tissues from patients with ulcerative colitis. After graduate program, Dr. Hwang has continued her research career as Research Staff in Fang Lab from March 2024.
Jaewon Kim (김재원), Ph.D. completion
Mr. Kim has been trained to investigate molecular mechanisms of how BDNF1 controls cellular energy metabolism in response to serine-deprivation in colorectal cancer (September 2020~August 2023).
Yunjun Kang (강윤준), Undergraduate researcher
Mr. Yunjun Kang joined Fang Lab as Underwood College undergraduate research assistant (March 2022~August 2023). After being trained with scRNA seq analysis in diverse metabolic tissues, Mr. Kang joined Dr. Teddy Drivas lab, the Graduate program of Biomedical Engineering at Univ. of Pennsylvania from August 2023.
Yo Seob Lee (이요섭), Ph.D.
Dr. Lee has investigated the physiological roles of MOGAT1 to modulate lipid metabolism in hepatocytes. He has screened specific inhibitors for MOGAT1 to protect against NAFLD and NASH using animal models. Furthermore, Dr. Lee has expanded his interests into the molecular mechanisms of hepatic MOGAT1 to control hepatic cellular energetics in response to environmental stresses, such as nutritional stress. Dr. Lee has continued his research career as Research Staff in Genomic center, Gangnam Severance Hospital.
Kyu Hye Chun (전규혜), Ph.D.
Dr. Chun has investigated physiological roles of Dexras1 to modulate cell proliferation, drug resistance and migration in different types of gastric cancer such as intestinal vs smooth-muscle like cells. In addition, Dr. Chun has been working to identify the therapeutic targets to increase efficacy of anti-PD1 cancer drug using syngenic animal models. Dr. Chun has continued her research career as Research Staff in Dr. Jae-woo Kim's Lab from March 2024.
Yeseong Hwang (황예성), Ph.D.
Afer Master degree, Dr. Hwang joined Department of Medical Science at Yonsei University College of Medicine from Sept 2019, and he officially joined Fang lab from March 2022. For two years, Dr. Hwang has been working on 1C metabolism to control immunometabolism inflammatory CAF of CRC on the transcriptomics-based bioinformatics. Dr. Hwang joined Department of Internal Medicine as Research Staff at Yonsei University College of Medicine from January 2024.
Hae-Kyung Lee (이해경), Ph.D.
Dr. Lee joined Fang lab from June, 2019 as research assistant professor and has investigated physiological roles of E3 ligase MKRN1 to modulate various signaling networks promoting cell proliferation and tumorigenesis in response to diverse cellular environments, such as hypoxia and nutritional stress. In addition to ubiquitin-proteasome project, Dr. Lee has discovered novel therapeutic targets to improve efficacy of anti-PD-1 anticancer drugs using syngenic animal models.