Hyunwoo Chung, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Seoul National University, Republic of Korea 
M.Sc., Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
B.Sc., Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Languages Spoken: Korean

Biography

During his doctoral course, Hyunwoo (Woo) Chung studied pancreatic islet biology, diabetes mellitus, and the immune responses that follow syngeneic, allogeneic, and xenogeneic pancreatic islet transplantation.  

After getting his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and joining Dr. Zhu’s lab in NIAID, Woo has been focusing on innate lymphoid cell biology with respect to adaptive lymphocytes using scRNA-seq technology and IBD models.