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Jong Woo Lee, PhD

Research Scientist, Internal Medicine (Medical Oncology)
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Research Scientist, Internal Medicine (Medical Oncology)

Biography

Jong Woo Lee, PhD is a Research Scientist at the Yale Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine. He has expertise on numerous innovative techniques covering cancer biology, pharmacology, metabolism and in vivo preclinical evaluation of therapeutics including targeted therapy and immuno-oncology. His research has mainly been focusing on translational cancer research by demonstrated combinational therapeutics utilizing mitosis (AURKA)/cell cycle checkpoint (WEE1) inhibition in TP53-mutated/HPV-negative head/neck cancer, and MEK/immune checkpoint (PD-1/PD-L1) inhibition in KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer to pursue development of novel mechanisms and innovative therapeutics approach to treat these devastating diseases.

Appointments

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Education & Training

Associate Research Scientist
Yale Cancer Center (2021)
Postdoctoral Associate
Yale University School of Medicine (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute (2012)
Postdoctoral Associate
Boston University School of Medicine (2011)
Postdoctoral Scholar
Penn state Hershey Cancer Institute (2010)
Postdoctoral Fellow
H.Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (2008)
Teaching Assistant
The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine (2007)
PhD
Catholic University Medical College, Pathology/Cancer Biology (2007)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Jong Woo Lee's published research.

Publications

2020

2019

2017

2016

Get In Touch

Contacts

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Yale School of Medicine

333 Cedar Street, NSB286

New Haven, CT 06510

United States

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  • Nathan Smith Building

    Lab

    315 Cedar Street, Rm 286

    New Haven, CT 06510