YOO, Young Sook

Ph.D., Biochemistry (Oregon State University)
e-mail: ysyoo@kist.re.kr
phone ext.: +82-2-958-5066

Dr. Yoo received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the Oregon State University in 1986, followed by postdoctoral fellowship in Neurobiochemistry at the Lab. of Developmental Neurochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1986 to 1989. The research in her laboratory is centered on understanding mechanisms that underlie the regulation of signaling proteins involved in cellular signal transduction processes which are of fundamental importance in human disease. The major research focuses on utilization of multidisciplinary tools of cell biology, molecular biology, biochemical, chemical, computational biology and systems based analytical biochemistry as a systems biology approaches to understand the signal transduction mechanisms of the target proteins. Besides this, she actively involved in bio-analytical method development for monitoring the key cellular signaling components using capillary electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometer. She has also engaged in cardiac systems biology research. In addition, her research projects aimed to study the MAP kinase and cytokine pathway in rheumatoid arthritis to understand relationship between their expressions. She is the author of over 45 papers and patents in this area.

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