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Wonhwa Cho (wcho@uic.edu) |
Current members |
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Ashutosh Sharma (sharma61@uic.edu) "I develop new ratiometric sensors for direct quantification of cellular membrane curvature and molecular interactions" |
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Indira Singaram (isinga2@uic.edu) "I investigate the novel mechanisms by which cholesterol and phsophoinositides regulate diverse cellular processes" |
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Sukhamoy Gorai (sukhamoy@uic.edu) "I develop small molecular modulators of cellular lipid-protein interactions involved ib cancer" |
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Ha Pham (hapham@uic.edu) "I work on cholesterol signaling" |
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Pawanthi Buwaneka (pbuwan2@uic.edu) "I investigate the mechanisms by which lipids regulate TGF beta signaling pathways" |
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Arthur Ralko (aralko2@uic.edu) "I investigate the mechanisms of novel growth factor signaling pathways in breast cancer" |
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Jiachen "Sunny" Sun (jsun71@uic.edu) "I develop new lipid sensors and study the mechanisms of PI3K signaling" |
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Hoon Kee Kim (hkim464@uic.edu) "I develop novel small molecule modulators of lipid signaling" |
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Simona Kavrakova (skavra2@uic.edu) "I study the mechanisms of lipid signaling and develop lipid signaling modulators" |
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Madalyn Puckett (mpucke3@uic.edu) "I study the lipid regulation of growth factor signaling in cancer " |
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Camila Cardenas (ccarde21@uic.edu) "I work on lipid signaling"
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Christine Chioma Nnyamah (cnnyam2@uic.edu) "I study the mechanisms of lipid signaling and develop lipid signaling modulators" |
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Cho Group Alumni (not exhaustive) |
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Name |
Cho Group Affiliation |
Current Position |
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Dua, Rajiv |
Ph. D., 1995 |
Senior Investigator, Roche Molecular Diagnostics |
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Mukhopadhyay, Tuli |
Ph. D., 1996 |
Associate Professor, |
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Koo, Yumee |
Ph. D., 1998 |
Assistant Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia |
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Lee, Byung In |
Ph. D., 1999 |
Product Development Manager, Invitrogen |
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Han, Sang Kyou |
Ph. D., 2000 |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD |
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Medkova, Martina |
Ph. D., 2000 |
Senior Scientist, RainDance Technologies, Inc. |
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Sumandea, Marius |
Ph. D., 2000 |
Discovery Researcher, Eli Lilly and Co. |
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Bitto, Eduard |
Ph. D., 2001 |
Associate Professor, |
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Kim, Kwangpyo |
Ph. D., 2002 |
Professor, |
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Digman, Michelle |
Ph. D., 2003 |
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine |
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Rafter, John |
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Senior Scientist, Bruker-Prairie Technology |
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Das, Sudipto |
Ph. D., 2003 |
Scientist, SAIC-Fredrick, Inc. NCI |
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Stahelin, Robert |
Ph. D., 2003 |
Retter Professor of Pharmacy |
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Kulkarni, Shilpa |
Ph. D., 2003 |
Faculty, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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Kim, Young Jun |
Ph. D., 2004 |
Associate Professor, |
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| Wijewickrama, Gihani | Ph. D., 2007 | Scientist, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco |
wijewickrama.gihani@gene.com |
| Tian, Wen (Amy) | Ph. D., 2008 | Senior Research Scientist, Stanford university | amytian@stanford.edu |
Manna, Debasis |
Ph. D., 2008 |
Assistant Professor, |
dmanna@iitg.ac.in |
Tun, Moe (M.D.) |
Ph. D., 2008 |
MSK Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
Moe.P.Tun@dmu.edu |
Lucas, Nathan |
Ph.D., 2011 |
Scientist, Protein Engineering Division, Stratos Genomics, Seattle, WA |
nlucas@stratosgenomics.com |
| Yoon, Youngdae | Ph.D, 2012 | Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Korea | yyoon21@gmail.com |
| Sheng, Ren | Ph.D, 2014 | Assistant Professor, Notheastern University, China | shengren1211@126.com |
| Chen, Yong | Postdoc, 2009-2011 | Senior Scientist, Abbvie | ychen@abbvie.com |
| Liu, Shulin | Postdoc, 2013-2017 | Assistant Professor, Nankai University, China | shulin-liu@163.com |