Young-Ho Ahn, PhD
Address: Rm 714
Ewha Womans University College of Medicine
25 Magokdong-ro 2-gil, Gangseo-gu
Seoul 07804, Republic of Korea
E-mail: yahn@ewha.ac.kr
Phone: +82-2-6986-6268 (office), +82-2-6986-6041 (lab)
Work experience
Research Interests
Lung cancer
Metastasis
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
microRNAs
long non-coding RNAs
Tumot microenvironment
Professor
Mar 2021 - present
Department of Molecular Medicine, Ewha Womans Univertiy College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Associate Professor
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Department of Molecular Medicine, Ewha Womans Univertiy College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Assistant Professor
Mar 2014 - Feb 2016
Department of Molecular Medicine, Ewha Womans Univertiy College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Instructor
Nov 2010 - Feb 2014
Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nov 2006 - Nov 2010
Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Advisor: Jonathan M. Kurie, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sep 2004 - Oct 2006
School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul Naitonal University, Seoul, Korea
Advisor: Seung Hwan Hong, Ph.D.
Education
Seoul National University
Mar 1999 - Aug 2004
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences
Thesis: Studies on the mechanisms of 8-Cl-cAMP-induced growth inhibition and apoptosis
Advisor: Seung Hwan Hong, Ph.D.
Seoul National University
Mar 1997 - Feb 1999
M.S. in Biological Sciences
Thesis: Depletion of intracellular zinc induces apoptosis in mouse primary neuron cultures
Advisor: Seung Hwan Hong, Ph.D.
Seoul National University
Mar 1993 - Feb 1997
B.S. in Molecular Biology