Lab News

Hwira Baek, a PhD student from Sunkyunkwan University, joins our lab as a visiting student. She will be with us for next nine months. Welcome, Hwira!

Seungpyo Hong has been elected to the 2022 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. He was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of …

Dr. Kichang Nam, a professor at Dongguk University Medical School, joins our lab as a visiting professor while he is on sabbatical. He will be with us for next one year. Welcome, Professor Nam!

Our postdoc, Dr. Jiyoon Bu, accepted an offer from Inha University in Korea to join its Biomedical Engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor as of March 1st, 2022. This great achievement makes him the fifth …

Falk Medical Trust supports our collaborative project with Dr. Allan Brasier on tackling pulmonary fibrosis for next three years.  This 1-million dollar Transformational Award is a continuation of our collaboration being supported by the same …

Dr. JinWoong Lee and Do Hyeon Jung from Sungkyungkwan University (Seoul, South Korea) joined our lab as visiting scientists. Welcome!

Our graduate student Caroline Hopkins passed the preliminary exam today. Congratulations on becoming an official PhD candidate!

Ashita Nair, a graduate student from our lab, earned PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences with her thesis of “Hybrid Nanoparticles Integrating Dendritic Polymers and Lipids for Oligonucleotide Delivery in Cancer Therapeutics.” Congratulations, Dr. Nair!!

Patrick Henry, a PharmD student who has conducted research with the Hong lab for the past year, has recently been awarded the Ronald T. and Pamela K. Borchardt Scholarship. Congratulations!

Jiyoon’s paper describing Tri-modal liquid biopsy with colleagues at Chungnam National University has recently been accepted for publication by Clinical and Translational Medicine. Ashita’s manuscript describing a novel dendron-lipid nanoparticle for drug and gene delivery …