Dr. Kyuwon Cho, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yoon Lab, received the predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship in 2016 and 2022 respectively from the American Heart Association (AHA).

AHA predoctoral fellowship enhances the training of promising students in pre-doctoral degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global health and wellbeing. AHA postdoctoral fellowship enhances the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent. The applicant must be embedded in an […]

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Cho et al., Theranostics, 2022

Review Theranostics. 2022 Mar 14;12(6):2758-2772. doi: 10.7150/thno.67661. eCollection 2022. From engineered heart tissue to cardiac organoid Jaeyeaon Cho 1 2, Hyein Lee 2 3, Woongchan Rah 2, Hyuk Jae Chang 4 3, Young-Sup Yoon 1 2 5Affiliations expand PMID: 35401829 PMCID: PMC8965483 DOI: 10.7150/thno.67661 Abstract The advent of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) presented a new paradigm to employ hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) in drug screening and disease modeling. However, hPSC-CMs differentiated in conventional two-dimensional systems are structurally […]

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Cho et al., Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021

Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Aug;5(8):880-896. doi: 10.1038/s41551-021-00783-0. Epub 2021 Aug 23. Regeneration of infarcted mouse hearts by cardiovascular tissue formed via the direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts Jaeyeaon Cho 1 2, Sangsung Kim 2, Hyein Lee 2, Woongchan Rah 2, Hee Cheol Cho 3, Nam Kyun Kim 3, Seongho Bae 1, Dong Hoon Shin 2, Min Goo Lee 4, In-Hyun Park 5, Yoshiaki Tanaka 6, Eric Shin 1, Hong Yi 7, Ji Woong Han 1, Patrick Tae Joon Hwang 8, Ho-Wook Jun 8, Hun-Jun Park 9, Kyuwon Cho 1, Sang Wook Lee 1, Jae Kyung Jung 1, Rebecca D […]

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Cho et al., Scientific Report, 2020

Sci Rep. 2020 May 15;10(1):8061. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64908-2. Mammalian CBX7 isoforms p36 and p22 exhibit differential responses to serum, varying functions for proliferation, and distinct subcellular localization Kyu-Won Cho # 1, Mark Andrade # 1, Yu Zhang 1, Young-Sup Yoon 2 3 4 PMID: 32415167 PMCID: PMC7228926 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64908-2 Abstract CBX7 is a polycomb group protein, and despite being implicated in many diseases, its role in cell proliferation has been controversial: some […]

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Shin et al., Circulation Research, 2019

Circ Res. 2019 Dec 6;125(12):1141-1145. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.310859. Epub 2019 Dec 5. Current State of Cardiovascular Research in Korea Jae Il Shin 1 2, Jaewon Oh 3, Hyeon Chang Kim 4, Donghoon Choi 3, Young-Sup Yoon 5 2Affiliations expand PMID: 31804914 PMCID: PMC7008968 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.310859 Free PMC article Abstract Cardiovascular diseases have shown a continuous increase in Korea over the past decade and became the second most common cause of mortality in Korea. Although […]

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Cakir et al., Nature Method, 2019

Nat Methods. 2019 Nov;16(11):1169-1175. doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0586-5. Epub 2019 Oct 7. Engineering of human brain organoids with a functional vascular-like system Bilal Cakir # 1, Yangfei Xiang # 1, Yoshiaki Tanaka 1, Mehmet H Kural 2, Maxime Parent 3, Young-Jin Kang 4 5, Kayley Chapeton 6, Benjamin Patterson 1, Yifan Yuan 2, Chang-Shun He 7, Micha Sam B Raredon 2 7, Jake Dengelegi 8, Kun-Yong Kim 1, Pingnan Sun 1, Mei Zhong 9, Sangho Lee 10, Prabir Patra 1 8, Fahmeed Hyder 3 7, Laura E Niklason 2 7, Sang-Hun Lee 4 5, Young-Sup Yoon 10 11, In-Hyun Park 12Affiliations expand PMID: 31591580 PMCID: PMC6918722 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0586-5 Abstract Human cortical organoids (hCOs), derived from human […]

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Dr. Sang-ho Lee, Instructor in the Yoon Lab, received the 2019 American Heart Association Career Development Award.

This award Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist. The award will develop the research skills to support and greatly enhance […]

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Dr. Seongho Bae, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yoon Lab, received the postdoctoral fellowship in 2018 from the American Heart Association (AHA)

The purpose of AHA postdoctoral fellowship is to enhance the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent. The applicant must be embedded in an appropriate investigative group with the mentorship, support, and relevant scientific guidance of a research mentor. Research topic: Cardiac Repair by enhanced vascularization with ETV2 Ischemic heart disease is the […]

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