Hoyoung M. Maeng, M.D.

Dr. Maeng graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea with an M.D. in 1998. She started her first research project in Yonsei Cancer Center as a medical student where she first developed an interest in translational medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Severance Hospital, Yonsei University. Further training at the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a research fellow in 2005 provided her with a deeper insight into the understanding of viral oncoprotein and cancer. Based on the work done at that time, she was awarded the AACR-MedImmune Fellowship in 2007. After serving in the public health system for Korean National Insurance as a physician treating patients with hematologic malignancies, she returned to the U.S. and completed her internal medicine residency at MetroWest Medical Center, Framingham, MA.  She then completed a leukemia fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at NCI.