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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yonsei University (September 2023~August 2024)
Ph.D., Dept. of Medical Science, Yonsei University
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.
Ph.D., Dept. of Medicine, Yonsei University
Dr. Jeong is a licensed medical technologist and has investigated molecular mechanisms of how Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) secretion is modulated by nutritional status. For Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Jeong has investigated the molecular mechanisms of how epigenetic eraser controls transcriptional networks modulating cellular energetics and tumorigenesis in pancreatic cancer. After graduate program, Dr. Jeong is going to continue his research career as Research Staff in Fang Lab from March 2025.
B.S., Sejong University
Ms. Jo has investigated molecular mechansisms of estrogen receptor signaling pathway and bromodomain-mediated chromatin remodeling system to control tumorigenesis in gastric cancer. Also, Ms. Jo has investigated the molecular mechanisms of how epigenetic writer controls transcriptional network modulating cellular energetics in immune cells of blood clots.
Research Assistant, Severance Biomedical Science Institute (January 2021~February 2022)
B.S., Korea University
Ms. Joo recently joined Fang Lab for the graduate program March 2022. She has been working on one-carbon metabolic pathways to identify genetic signature of intraheterogeneity in intestinal type of gastric cancer. Ms. Joo is currently working on molecular mechanisms to investigate FXR-mediated bile acid signaling in colorectal cancer.
B.S., Korea University
Mr. Jeon is a joint lab student with Prof. Jae-woo Kim and has examined the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of metabolic syndromes including insulin resistance and MASH using gut-specific FXR agonist. Mr. Jeon also has investigated novel molecular mechanisms of anticancer drug resistance in colorectal cancer in response to chemotherapy.
R.N., Yonsei University
Ms. Lee joined Fang Lab from Jul. 2022 as research assistant. She graduated from Yonsei University College of Nursing and is now Ph.D. student in the department of medical science from March 2023. She is currently working on the molecular mechanisms of how Triple-negative breast cancer modifies cellular metabolism for chemo-resistance.
B.S., Yonsei University
Mr. Park joined Fang Lab from Mar. 2023 as a research assistant. He has currently merged and analyzed human and mouse lung cancer microenvironment tissue single cell RNA seqeuncing to identify novel therapeutic target for cancer therapy.
Also, he is interested in identifying novel senescent fibroblast cluster in atopic derma to find novel therapeutic target for atophy.
B.S., Korea University
Ms. Kim joined Fang Lab from Jan 2024 and participated in MRC summer internship program. Ms. Kim has designated to analyze mRNA seq, ATAC seq and scRNA seq on diverse metabolic tissues from metabolic dysfunctioned models. Furthermore, Ms. Kim has joined Gastric Cancer project to analyze lactate-mediated transcriptional network between intestinal and diffuse subtypes.
B.S., Inje University
Ms. Choi is a joint lab student with Professor Jae-woo Kim from March 2025 and participated cancer metabolism project. She is currently working on immune cell profiles of tumor microenvironment with ICI immunotherapy.
B.S., Yonsei University
Mr. Kim joined Fang Lab from May 2024 as a junior undergraduate research assistant. Mr. Kim has analyzed mRNA seq, scRNA seq and spatial transcriptomics from Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) samples to distinguish molecular pathogenesis between two diseases.
B.S., Yonsei University
Ms. Sung joined Fang Lab from Jan 2025 as a senior undergraduate research assistant. Ms. Sung has analyzed diverse transcriptomic datasets from MASLD to identify novel regulatory mechanisms involved in amino acid metabolism such as proline and arginine which play crucial roles in urea cycle.
B.S., Yonsei University
Ms. Lee joined Fang Lab from Jan 2025 as a joint student with Prof. Bo Kyung Yoon. Ms. Lee has focuses on elucidating novel mechanisms for diagnosis and therapy using animal models of inflammatory lung diseases, including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
Department of Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Ms. Lee joined Fang Lab from Jan 2024 as a student intern. Ms. Lee has been analyzing numerous public PBMC single cell RNA seq datasets from patients of COVID-19, COPD, and other respiratory autoimmune diseases to identify novel biomarkers for early diagnosis of lung fibrosis.
Department of Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Ms. Kwon joined Fang Lab from Jan 2025 as a student intern. Ms. Kwon has been analyzing numerous public PBMC single cell RNA seq datasets from Pancreatic cancer patients to identify novel biomarkers for early diagnosis of cancer progession & novel therapeutic targets for Pancreatic cancer.
Ewha Womans University
Ms. Kim joined Fang Lab from July 2024 as a student intern. She is investigating how FSTL3 and GDF15 defines a convergent secretory signature in primary scleorosing cholangitis and intrahepatic malignacy. She examines examines the role of these secreted factors in shaping the hepatic microenvironment and influencing malignant transformation.
Yonsei University Global Leaders College
Ms. Cho joined Fang Lab from Jan 2025 as a student intern.
Requirement of Dept. of Medical Sciences for full scholarship: Official English score of IBT (>83) or Yonsei TOEFL (>560)
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