Name | Field of Research | Disease or symptom to study | Summary of Research | Email/Tel | |
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Il-Young Kim, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Muscle Wasting Diseases/Metabolic Diseases/Exercise Physiology | Study on the role of skeletal muscle (metabolism) in health and disease (e.g., diabetes, sarcopenia, & cancer cachexia) in humans, animals, and cells: explorations of metabolic flux (using stable isotope tracers) and molecular mechanisms underlying effect | iykim@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6599 |
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Hyeon-Man Baek, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Neuroscience | Cancer/Degenerative Diseases/Metabolic Diseases | Development of new therapeutics and cure-progress monitoring technique for degenerative brain diseases (dementia and Parkinson’s disease) and metabolic diseases by MRI and MRS techniques and also by developing biomarkers. Brain mapping by analysis of MTRI | hmbaek98@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6678 |
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Byung Chul Oh, PhD Professor College of Medicine |
Molecular Biochemistry | Molecular Biochemistry | Molecular Biochemistry | bcoh@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6074 |
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Mee-Sup Yoon, PhD Asst. Professor College of Medicine |
Signal Transduction | Sarcopenia/Uterine Endometriosis/mRNA vaccine/premature ovarian insufficiency | The pathogenic mechanism/factors and treatment of sarcopenia and the pathogenic mechanism/factors and treatment strategy of uterine endometriosis through the study of proliferation of the endometrial cells. | msyoon@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6067 |
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Dae Ho Lee, MD, PhD Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Diabetes/Obesity/Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases (NAFLD) | Clinical research on diabetes and metabolic diseases with abnormalities in glucose and lipid metabolism/Clinical assessment of efficacy of therapeutic candidates | drhormone@naver.com +82-32-458-2733 |
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Hui-Young Lee, DVM, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Metabolic syndrome/Insulin Resistance | Study on the pathogenesis and discovery of therapeutic targets for metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and fatty liver by using mitochondria, cell lines and animal models. | hylee@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6686 |
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Ji-Young Cha, PhD Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Metabolic Diseases/Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases (NAFLD) | Research on cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in control of energy homeostasis and discovery of targets for treatment of metabolic diseases/Study on the genes involved in metabolism of sugar, cholesterol and lipid and their regulatory roles in no | jycha1014@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6070 |
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Hyae Gyeong Cheon, PhD Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Metabolic Diseases | Study on etiology and pathogenesis of obesity and Type 2 diabetes and development of new therapeutics for them | hgcheon@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6058 |
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Cheol Soo Choi, MD, PhD Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Obesity / Diabetes / Dyslipidemia / Fatty Liver | Research on mechanism of pathogenesis of metabolic diseases and development of therapeutics using mice with modified genes related to metabolic diseases | cschoi@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6076 |