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New grad students joined Shin lab
Two new grad students joined the Shin laboratory this year. Jihye Han and Huiwon Cho joined the laboratory to pursue their Ph.D. in stem...

Kunyoo Shin
Jan 22, 20201 min read
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Eunjee Kim received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2020 KSMCB Conference
Congratulations, Eunjee! Eunjee Kim received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2020 Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular...

Kunyoo Shin
Jan 21, 20201 min read
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Speeding up Sonic Hedgehog slows cancer down
In order to grow, cancer cells shut down or over-activate genes that normally maintain a cell’s health. The Sonic Hedgehog gene – named...

Kunyoo Shin
May 28, 20192 min read
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Seoyoung Choi received the KEF scholarship
Congratulations, Seoyoung! Seoyoung Choi, the first year graduate student, received the KEF Award from Kwangjeong Educational Foundation....

Kunyoo Shin
Apr 17, 20191 min read
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Eunjee Kim received the Best Poster Award at the 2018 KSSCR Conference
Congratulations, Eunjee! Eunjee Kim received the Best Poster Award at the 2018 Korean Society for Stem Cell Research conference held in...

Kunyoo Shin
Sep 14, 20181 min read
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Shin lab welcomes new member!
New postdoctoral fellow joined the Shin laboratory this summer! Dr. Jeongwoo Kwon received his Ph.D. at Chungbuk National University, and...

Kunyoo Shin
Aug 1, 20181 min read
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Sung Eun Kim received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2017 International conference of KSM
Sung Eun Kim received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2017 International Conference of the Korean Society for Molecular and...

Kunyoo Shin
Oct 1, 20171 min read
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Novel niche signaling for mammary epithelial stem cells
In our study, published Mar 9 in Science, we found the novel role of Gli2, the major Hedgehog pathway transcription effectors, on the...

Kunyoo Shin
Mar 13, 20171 min read
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Shin lab welcomes three new members
Three new grad students joined the Shin laboratory this spring. Yubin Kim, Sangcheol Lee, and Eunjeong Lee joined the laboratory to...

Kunyoo Shin
Feb 19, 20171 min read
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New role of Hedgehog signaling in colitis
Our study found that inhibition of Hedgehog pathway intensifies colon inflammation in mice. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a...

Kunyoo Shin
Nov 4, 20161 min read
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Shin lab has moved to the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH
We have recently relocated our lab to new University in South Korea. We are now located on the second floor of Life Science Building in...

Kunyoo Shin
Mar 1, 20161 min read
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Novel finding on spatial regulation of prostate branching
In our study, published Nov 02 in Nature Cell Biology (Lim, Shin, Beachy NCB 2014), we found that Hh response in regenerating prostate is...

Kunyoo Shin
Nov 1, 20141 min read
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A surprising discovery on the development of invasive bladder cancer
Our study revealed a provocative role of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling in the progression of bladder cancer, which was published Oct 13 in...

Kunyoo Shin
Oct 12, 20141 min read
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Nature Reviews Cancer highlighted our study on cell of origin for bladder cancer
Our study investigating the origin of agressive bladder cancer (Shin, Beachy NCB 2014) was highlighted in Nature Review Cancer. In...

Kunyoo Shin
May 15, 20141 min read
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Root cause of bladder cancer revealed, highlighted in Nature Reviews Urology
Bladder cancer cell of origin study (Shin, Beachy, NCB 2014) was highllighted in Nature Reviews Urology. Previous studies have shown that...

Kunyoo Shin
May 12, 20141 min read
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Source of invasive bladder cancer
For the first time, the cell type to give rise to invasive urothelial carcinoma was pinpointed in our recetnly published study in Nature...

Kunyoo Shin
Apr 23, 20141 min read
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