Welcome to the Lab and Friends
Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Sung Kweon Cho, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacology, Ajou Univeristy School of Medicine
Hello,
I am Sungkweon. I started my lab in September 2021 (Ajou University, School of Medicine). I started uric acid research with serendipitous finding of asymptomatic hypouricemia during Phase 1 trial screening. The prevalence of hypouricemia in Korean is higher than European or African population. We’re trying to solve the background using genetic epidemiology, metabolomics, and population genetics.
I happened to be impressionistic connoisseur after visiting Renoir collection in Barnes Foundation Gallery, The Phillips Collection (D.C), and the Cone Collection at BMA. I also like classical music and skiing.
My favorite quote is “Solvitur Ambuloando.”
Education
2004 ~ 2016 MOT in College of Business, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), South Korea
2009 ~ 2012 Honors PhD in Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University, South Korea (Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogentics)
2002 ~ 2008 MD in School of Medicine, SungKyunkwan University, South Korea
Professional Experience
2021 ~ Present Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Ajou University, School of Medicine, South Korea
2017 ~ 2021 Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH, Frederick, MD, U.S. (KVSTA Fellowship)
2016 ~ 2021 Research Professor, SAIHST, SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, South Korea
2013 ~ 2016 Military Service Obligation/ Captain, Armed Forces Medical Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea
2009 ~ 2013 Residency, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Severance hospital, Seoul, South Korea
2008 ~ 2009 Rotating Intern, Severance hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Yoojin Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (Joined : 2021. 12)
SungHwan Kim
Elective Student (Ajou University, School of Medicine)
Scientific Advisor
NCI/NIH SCIENTIST EMERITUS
Cheryl Winkler, PhD
Winkler’s Lab
Research interest: examine the influence of APOL1 risk variants on living kidney donors and on kidney graft survival in African Americans, to develop precision biomarkers for diagnostics and prognostics and to identify druggable targets to treat kidney disease
Current Collaborators
Jeffrey B. Kopp, MD, NIDDK/NIH
Kopp’s Lab
Principal investigator of podocyte pathobiology group within Kidney Diseases Branch, Kidney Disease Section in NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Research interest: various forms of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), with a particular focus on HIV-associated FSGS and on the role of genetic variants in APOL1 (encoding apolipoprotein L1) in FSGS, and cell culture models and transgenic mouse models to define mechanistic pathways leading to podocyte injury, dysfunction, and loss
Ju-Yang Jung, MD., PhD.
Assistant professor, Department of Rheumatology Ajou University School of Medicine
Research interest: associations between autoimmune response and atherosclerosis in rheumatic diseases, mechanism of organ involvment in autoimmune diseases (such as RA_ILD and lupus nephritis),
Raul Cachau, Ph.D.
Integrated Data Science Section, Research Technologies Branch, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA
Thorkell Andresson, Ph.D
Center for Cancer Research (CCR), NCI, Frederick, MD, USA
Blanka Stibůrková, PhD
Associate professor at Charles University and General University Hospital
Research interest: inborn errors of purine metabolism and urate transport, genetic and biological background of urate metabolism (hypouricemia, hyperuricemia, and gout), functional analysis of urate transporters.
Guest Researcher
Jennifer Hwang, DO
Recent graduate of Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Prospective fellow of Primary care Investigators Training in Chronic disease & Health disparities Fellowship at the University of Chicago
Christopher Jenkins MD
Clinical Fellow (Rheumatology), Georgetown University
Jinseop Kim, MD PhD
CEO of the Zarathu, medical statistics company
Administrator of the R community, Shinykorea
Mentee
Shaan Desai, MD Candidate
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC
