Ayeong and Ju Yeong, new graduate students
Ayeong Kwon and Ju Yeong Yi, who have been doing their internship in the lab (since January 2021 and August 2021, respectively), will start pursuing PhD in Computational Genomics at…
Eunji’s review paper published
Congrats! Seminars in Immunopathology (IF=9.623; 5-yr IF=12.149) published Eunji's review paper on lupus genetics on November 3 (title: Recent advances in understanding the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus). This review…
Eunji received the NRF fellowship.
Eunji HA, a graduate student in the MS-PhD program in the KimLab, was recently selected as a recipient of a two-year fellowship of the Korea National Research Foundation (NRF). The…
Teacher’s Day
Two MS alumni, Ki-Nam in LG Household & Health Care and Sehwan in CoreStem, visited the KimLab on May 14th, the day before Teacher's day.
Nat Rev Rheumatol highlighting an Eunji’s work
Eunji's RA genetics paper (ARD 2021; https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219065) was featured in Research Highlight of Nature Reviews Rheumatology (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-021-00580-8), written by Sarah Onuora - the Chief Editor of the journal.
Eunji awarded by KOGO
Eunji was selected as one of the recipients of Young Scientists' Awards by Korea Genome Organization (KOGO) on Feb 2, 2021, and gave an online talk at the KOGO winter…
Eunji’s RA CD4 T-cell omics study in ARD
Eunji has successfully conducted a CD4-positive T-cell study to understand how genetic variants shape the disease-specific transcriptomic signatures in CD4-positive T cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This has…
Eunji’s RA genetics paper in ARD
Congrats! Eunji identified 11 novel genetic loci that confer risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in 311,292 individuals of Korean, Japanese and European populations. Her follow-up computational genetic analyses revealed the…
Large-Scale Lupus GWAS published in ARD
A large-scale genome-wide association meta-analysis study, initiated in 2017 and conducted by 102 contributors, made a wonderful story in the lupus genetics field, identifying 46 novel loci in the human…
Sehwan’s paper published in A&R
Sehwan CHUN (MSc 2019) developed an allele-specific quantification method for HLA-DRB1 using both total RNA-seq and HLA-DRB1 sequencing data. He found highly allele-specific expression of HLA-DRB1 that leads to the…