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Wooyong Park profile

Woo Yong Park, Ph.D.

  • Center for Cancer Research
  • National Cancer Institute
  • Building 37, Room 3134
  • Bethesda, MD 20892
  • 240-760-6593
  • parkw2@nih.gov
Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Dr. Woo Yong’s expertise is in cancer metastasis and microenvironment, currently focusing on mechanism how tumor cell death impacts on tumor progression and metastasis. For his Ph.D. Woo Yong studied impact of epigenetic regulation on melanoma metastasis.

As a postdoctoral fellow in Li Yang lab, He is studying tumor cells’ abnormal behavior that expels nuclear contents during cell death to overcome metastatic bottleneck

Areas of Expertise

Cancer Metastasis And Microenvironment