Congratulations to Dr. Cho for a Remarkable Victory!

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Cho has won the prestigious first prize at the 5th Asian Cardiovascular Symposium during the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) 2024 Scientific Sessions hosted by the American Heart Association. The BCVS Scientific Sessions convenes basic and translational cardiovascular scientists from around the world with the common goal to discover pathways […]

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Dr. Yoon attended the 3rd Annual International Symposium on Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine as a speaker held at the prestigious Texas Heart Institute.

The Texas Heart Institute served as a perfect venue, with its state-of-the-art facilities and welcoming environment. As a speaker, Dr. Yoon had the opportunity to showcase his research and share his insights with a diverse audience. The discussions and interactions that followed were intellectually stimulating, pushing the boundaries of our collective knowledge and understanding. It […]

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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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