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ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST
Professional Summary

Experienced, well published, T cell immunologist seeking to join an enthusiastic research team, to assist in the development of novel therapeutic molecules and ultimately to cure disease. Areas of expertise includes Molecular Biology, cell Biology and Immunology *By nature self-motivated, creative thinker and fast learner *Highly motivated and talented in experiment design

Over 20 years of scientific research experience (Immunology, cell & molecular biology)Disease expertise : Allergic, autoimmune diseases and Immune-oncologyExpert in immune cell Biology (activation, differentiation, regulation-mRNA & protein profiling, sorting and phenotyping assay) as well as tissue resident cellsLead and participated in new target identification and validation teamSkill in various technologies : mRNA (Nanostring and Nextera : multicell and single cell), DNA (CRISPR/CAS9), FACS (Analyser and sorter), Imaging (Fluorescence and Confocal), Multiplex (Luminex: cytokines and chemokines), MSD & Array and many immune profiling assaysDesigning and performing experiments for new targets and PD/predictive/prognostic biomarkers for programs in Lead Identification, Optimization and Preclinical CandidatesStrong background in Cellular and Molecular BiologyLead many academic and industry collaborations : 3D culture, human disease tissuesExcellent communication and presentation skills Extensive understanding on the disease mechanisms of asthma, autoimmune and cancerSolid experience in pediatric immune responses Multiple animal handling abilities Creative and collaborative approach to reach a goalParticipated in many mentor and mentee programs

Skills
Immunology T cell biology (TCR and cytokine mediated  T cell activation and differentiation, regulatory T cell and DCs) : Sorting and profiling during activation and regulationIn vitro and in vivo ligand receptor interactions and activation (proliferation, cytokines and chemokines, gene expression profiling)Disease expertise in asthma, autoimmunity and Immune-oncologyAntibody based therapeutic studies in miceImmunohistochemistry using frozen and paraffin embedded tissue samplesMulti-color FACS flow technique (FACS Canto, Fortessa and Sony SH800 sorting)ELISA and ELISPOT technique : R&D, MSD, EbiosciencesParticipated in Knock-out mouse designTetramer based immunostainingAsthma related studies measuring Airway hyperreactivity and inflammationDifficult mouse injection skills: facial vein (pups), intra vein, intra peritoneal , intra nasal and intra tracheal injectionsMouse bleeding techniques: retro-orbital, tail, total bleeding.Molecular Biology Signaling pathway mRNA based arrays and phosphospecific antibodyWestern Southern and Northern Blot technique for genotypingAntibody production using proteins and peptidesMass production and purification of monoclonal antibody using rollersReal time PCR : many array systemsProduction and purification of recombinant proteinCell Biology Pathway of cell viability and apoptosis in the immune systemLive and fixed cell imaging techniques using confocal and fluorescence microscopy Various apoptosis test: (activated caspase detection, membrane integrity, DNA degradation and mitochondrial apoptotic pathways)Cell purification using the Auto MACS systemMultiplex Luminex systems
Certifications
RT-122598-N (PI: Hyun-Hee Lee) 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2011 Non-competitive renewal for 2010-2011 TIM-1 Costimulation and NKT Cells in Asthma. The goals of this project are to examine TIM-1 and NKT cell-mediated immunological mechanisms that regulate the development of allergic inflammatory responses.
Work History
Merck-MRLAssociate Principal Scientist | Boston, MA | January 2017 - Current
  • Lead a group for preclinical & clinical biomarkers and clinical planning of programs.
  • Lead a program group to investigate targets in Target Identification, Validation, Lead Identification and Optimization
  • Support direct reports in achieving their research goals and building career path
  • Lead target validation projects and collaborated with key opinion leaders in various disease areas.
Children's Hospital Boston-Harvard Medical SchoolPost-Doctoral Research Fellow | Boston, MA | July 2007 - January 2011
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Funded by American Lung Association 2009-2011) Research includes: The mechanism of asthma development.
  • Various models of asthma in mouse (OVA, (GalCer, HDM, Aspergillus, Ozone etc.).
  • Study inflammatory cells in asthma: NKT, T and DCs.
  • Co-stimulatory molecules related to asthma development.
University of MissouriGraduate Research Assistant / Ph | Columbia, Columbia, MO | January 2001 - January 2007
  • Immunity in the Newborn: Control by IL-13 receptor and dendritic cells Research included:.
  • The mechanism of Th2 biased immune responses in neonates via IL-4 and IL-13R(1.
  • Developmental maturation of a subset of dendritic cells in neonatal immunity.
  • Training and mentoring junior graduate school students.
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, TaejonResearch Assistant | January 1999 - January 2000
  • Research included:.
  • Production of recombinant proteins and determination of its bioactivity.
Mokwon UniversityGraduate Teaching/Research Assistant | January 1998 - January 1999
  • Research included:.
  • Development of antibody against a marker for pediatric cancer (Peptide based antigen, epitope mapping).
  • Taught Animal physiology lab classes.
  • Assisted my professor's research and teaching program.
National Military Service Translator-EnglishSergeant) | January 1995 - January 1998
  • Gave briefings to international military personnel to introduce the situation between South and North Korea (included groups of 300-400 people).
  • Developed my English communication skills and gained various cultural experiences.
Mokwon UniversityUndergraduate Research Assistant | January 1991 - January 1995
Merck-MRLSenior Scientist | Boston | February 2011 - December 2016
Education
CertificateUniversity of MissouriColumbia, MO | 2007


M.SPhysiology/ImmunologyMokwon University | 1999Physiology/Immunology
B.SBiologyMokwon University | 1995Biology
CertificateChief Management Professional CourseHUNETSeoul, Korea (ROK) | 2013
  • Opportunity to learn how science interacts with business and drug discovery processes.
Affiliations
2016-present Science Director of Korean-American professional community in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals (KASBP-Headquarter) 2016-present Vice-President of KASBP-Boston Chapter 2015-present President of Korean Scientist and Engineer Association NE Chapter 2013-present Member of Global Pharma Key Opinion Leader, KHIDI, Korea 2010 Four-part leadership series at Children's Hospital Boston.
Publications
Fiona Elwood, David J. Witter, Jennifer Piesvaux, Brian Kraybill, Nathan Bays, Carla Alpert, Peter Goldenblatt, Yujie Qu, Irena Ivanovska, Hyun-Hee Lee, Chi-Sung Chiu, Hao Tang, Mark E. Scott, Sujal V. Deshmukh, Mark Zielstorff, Alan Byford, Kalyan Chakravarthy, Lauren Dorosh, Alexey Rivkin, Joel Klappenbach, Bo-Sheng Pan, Ilona Kariv, Christopher Dinsmore, Deborah Slipetz, and Peter J. Dandliker. Evaluation of JAK3 Biology in Autoimmune Disease Using a Highly Selective, Irreversible JAK3 Inhibitor. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2017. 361:229-244. Impact factor -3.9 Benjamin Umiker, Hyun-Hee Lee, Julia Cope, Nadim J. Ajami,Joseph F. Petrosino, Jean-Philippe Laine, Heidi Ferguson, Nunzio Sciammetta, Melanie Kleinschek, and Michael Salmon. Selective NLRP3 inhibition attenuates DSS-induced intestinal inflammation in Nod2 knockout mice. (Submitted) Cristina St. Pierre, Jane Guo, John D Shin, Laura W Engstrom, Hyun-Hee Lee, Alan Herbert, Laura Surdi, James Baker, Michael Salmon, Sanjiv Shah, Michael Ellis, Hani Houshyar, Michael A Crackower, Melanie A Kleinschek, Dallas C Jones, Alexandra Hicks, Dennis M Zaller, Stephen E Alves and Ravisankar A Ramadas. A human tissue-based functional assay platform to evaluate the immune function impact of small molecule inhibitors that target the immune system. (Submitted) Kambez H. Benam1, Remi Villenave, Carolina Lucchesi, Antonio Varone, Cedric Hubeau, Hyun-Hee Lee, Michael Salmon, Stephen E. Alves, Thomas C. Ferrante, James Weaver, Geraldine Hamilton, Tony Bahinski, and Donald E. Ingber. Modeling human pulmonary inflammatory diseases and therapeutic responses in a microfluidic lung airway-on-a-chip. Nature Methods 13, 151-157 (2016) Impact factor -32.0 Gil MA, Caniga M, Woodhouse JD, Eckman J, Lee HH, Salmon M, Naber J, Hamilton VT, Sevilla RS, Bettano K, Klappenbach J, Moy L, Correll CC, Gervais FG, Siliphaivanh P, Zhang W, Zhang-Hoover J, McLeod RL, Cicmil M. Anti-inflammatory actions of Chemoattractant Receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 by the antagonist MK-7246 in a novel rat model of Alternaria alternata elicited pulmonary inflammation. Eur J Pharmacol. 2014 Impact factor -2.5 Moy LY, Jia Y, Caniga M, Lieber G, Gil M, Fernandez X, Sirkowski E, Miller R, Alexander JP, Lee HH, Shin JD, Ellis JM, Chen H, Wilhelm A, Yu H, Vincent S, Chapman RW, Kelly N, Hickey E, Abraham WM, Northrup A, Miller T, Houshyar H, Crackower MA.Inhibition of spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) attenuates allergen-mediated airway constriction. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2013 Jul 26. Impact factor -4.148 Kim HY, Chang YJ, Chuang YT, Lee HH, Kasahara DI, Martin T, Hsu JT, Savage PB, Shore SA, Freeman GJ, Dekruyff RH, Umetsu DT. T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 1 deficiency eliminates airway hyperreactivity triggered by the recognition of airway cell death. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Aug;132(2):414-25. Impact factor -12.047 Kim HY, Chang YJ, Subramanian S, Lee HH, Albacker LA, Matangkasombut P, Savage PB, McKenzie AN, Smith DE, Rottman JB, Dekruyff RH, Umetsu DT. Innate lymphoid cells responding to IL-33 mediate airway hyperreactivity independently of adaptive immunity. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012 Jan;129(1):216-227 impact factor - 9.27 Chang, Ya-Jen, Hye Young Kim, Lee A. Albecker, H-H Lee, et al., Influenza A infection in suckling mice expands a population of NKT cells that protects mice as adults from airway hyperreactivity. J Clin Invest. 2011 Jan 4;121(1):57-69. impact factor- 14.1 Lee, H-H, et al. Apoptotic Cells Activate Natural Killer T Cells through TIM-1 Resulting in Airway Hyperreactivity. J Immunol. 2010 Nov 1;185(9):5225-35. impact factor- 5.646 Dekruyff RH, Bu X, Ballesteros A, Santiago C, Chim YL, Lee HH, Karisola P, Pichavant M, Kaplan GG, Umetsu DT, Freeman GJ, Casasnovas JM. (2010). T cell/transmembrane, Ig, and mucin-3 allelic variants differentially recognize phosphatidylserine and mediate phagocytosis of apoptotic cells. J Immunol. 2010 Feb 15;184(4):1918-30. Epub 2010 Jan 18. impact factor -5.646 Lee, H-H, Christine M. Hoeman, John C. Hardaway, F. Betul Guloglu, Jason S. Ellis, Renu Jain, Rohit Divekar, Danielle M. Tartar, Cara L. Haymaker, and Habib Zaghouani. (2008) Delayed Developmental Maturation of a Subset of Dendritic Cells Biases Neonatal Immunity Towards Th2 Responses Through an Interplay Between IL-12 Cytokine and IL-13 Receptor Alpha 1 Expression. J Exp Med. 2008 Sep 29;205(10):2269-80. impact factor- 15.46 Jain, R., D. M. Nast, R. K. Gregg, R. D. Divekar, J. J. Bell, H-H Lee, P. Yu, J. S. Ellis, J.C. Hardaway, C. M. Franklin, and H. Zaghouani. (2008). Innocuous IFNg induced by adjuvant-free antigen restores normoglycemia in NOD mice through inhibition of IL-17 production. J Exp Med. 2008 Jan 21;205(1):207-18. impact factor- 15.46 Li, L.*, H-H Lee*, J.J. Bell, R.K. Gregg, and H. Zaghouani (2004). IL-4 utilizes an alternative receptor to drive apoptosis of Th1 cells and skews neonatal immunity towards Th2. Immunity. 20(4):429-40. * Co-first Author. Impact factor -20.589 Bell JJ, Ellis JS, Guloglu FB, Tartar DM, Lee HH, Divekar RD, Jain R, Yu P, Hoeman CM, Zaghouani H. (2008) Early Effector T Cells Producing Significant IFN* Develop into Memory. J. Immunol. 1;180(1):179-87. impact factor -5.646 Caprio-Young, J. J. Bell, H-H. Lee, J. S. Ellis, D. M. Nast, G. Sayler, B. Min, and H. Zaghouani. (2005). Neonatally Primed Lymph Node but not Splenic T Cells Display a Gly-Gly Motif Within the T Cell Receptor Beta Chain Complementarity Determining Region 3 (CDR3) That Controls Affinity and Lymphoid Organ Retention. J. Immunol. 176:357-364. impact factor -5.646 Ping Yu, Randal K. Gregg, J. Jeremiah Bell, Jason S. Ellis, Rohit Divekar, H-H. Lee, Renu Jain, Hanspeter Waldner, John C. Hardaway, Mary Collins, Vijay K. Kuchroo, and Habib Zaghouani (2005). Specific T Regulatory Cells Display Broad Suppressive Functions against Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis upon Activation with Cognate Antigen J. Immunol.174: 6772 - 6780. impact factor -5.646 Gregg, R. K., J. J. Bell, H-H. Lee, R. Jain, S. J. Schoenleber, R. Divekar, and H. Zaghouani (2004). Interleukin-10 diminishes CTLA-4 expression on islet-resident T cells and sustains their activation rather than tolerance. J. Immunol. 174: 662 - 670. impact factor -5.646 Gregg, R. K., R. Jain, S. J. Schoenleber, R. Divekar, J. J. Bell, H-H. Lee, Ping, Y., and H. Zaghouani (2004). A sudden decline in active membrane-bound TGFb impairs Treg function and protection against autoimmune diabetes. J. Immunol. 173: 7308 - 7316. impact factor -5.646 Bell, J. J., B. Min, R. K. Gregg, H-H. Lee, and H. Zaghouani. (2003). Break of neonatal Th1 tolerance and exacerbation of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by interference with B7 costimulation. J. Immunol. 15;171(4):1801-8. impact factor -5.646
Honors and Invited Talks
  • 2016 Speaker at Merck Scientific Symposium Boston 2016
    2015 Invited Speaker at 2015 KASBP Fall Symposium
    2014 Award of Excellence for Enhancing Merck's External Image
    2013-current Member of Global Pharma Key Opinion Leader, KHIDI, Korea
    2013 Invited Speaker at Global Pharma Key Opinion Leader International Symposium, KHIDI, Korea
    2013 Award of Excellence for the contribution to design of translational platform (Merck)
    2011 Excellence Award in Asthma Research Award from American Lung Association
    2010 American Lung Association Fellowship renewed (2010-2011)
    2010 Invited speaker at 14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe, Japan
    2010 Invited speaker at CD1d club, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Boston
    2009 Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Keystone, CO (Allergy and Asthma)
    2009 American Lung Association Fellowship awarded (2009-2010)
    2007 Oral presentation at AAI conference, Miami, FL
    2007 GPC Travel Award, Columbia, MO
    2007 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Travel Award, Columbia, MO
    2006 Life science Travel Award, Columbia, MO
    2006 Helen Mullen Travel Award, Columbia, MO
    2004 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Travel Award, Columbia, MO
    2003 Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Snowbird, UT
    1994 Academic Record Scholarship, Mokwon University, Tae-Jon, Korea
    1994 Academic Record Scholarship, Mokwon University, Tae-Jon, Korea
    1993 Top score Scholarship, Department of Biology, Mokwon University, Tae-Jon, Korea.
    1992 Academic Record Scholarship, Mokwon University, Tae-Jon, Korea.
Additional Information
  • Honors and Invited Talks 2016 Speaker at Merck Scientific Symposium Boston 2016 2015 Invited Speaker at 2015 KASBP Fall Symposium 2014 Award of Excellence for Enhancing Merck's External Image 2013-current Member of Global Pharma Key Opinion Leader, KHIDI, Korea 2013 Invited Speaker at Global Pharma Key Opinion Leader International Symposium, KHIDI, Korea 2013 Award of Excellence for the contribution to design of translational platform (Merck) 2011 Excellence Award in Asthma Research Award from American Lung Association 2010 American Lung Association Fellowship renewed (2010-2011) 2010 Invited speaker at 14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe, Japan 2010 Invited speaker at CD1d club, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Boston 2009 Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Keystone, CO (Allergy and Asthma) 2009 American Lung Association Fellowship awarded (2009-2010) 2007 Oral presentation at AAI conference, Miami, FL 2007 GPC Travel Award, Columbia, MO 2007 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Travel Award, Columbia, MO 2006 Life science Travel Award, Columbia, MO 2006 Helen Mullen Travel Award, Columbia, MO 2004 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Travel Award, Columbia, MO
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Companies Worked For:

  • Merck-MRL
  • Children's Hospital Boston-Harvard Medical School
  • University of Missouri
  • Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Taejon
  • Mokwon University
  • National Military Service Translator-English

School Attended

  • University of Missouri
  • Mokwon University
  • HUNET

Job Titles Held:

  • Associate Principal Scientist
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
  • Graduate Research Assistant / Ph
  • Research Assistant
  • Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant
  • Sergeant)
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Senior Scientist

Degrees

  • Certificate
    M.S Physiology/Immunology
    B.S Biology
    Certificate Chief Management Professional Course

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