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Jiyeon Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology with a joint appointment in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Kim received her PhD in Molecular Cancer Biology from Duke University, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Sally Kornbluth. Following her doctoral studies, she completed her postdoctoral training at UT-Southwestern Medical Center with Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis. At Yale, Dr. Kim's lab focuses on understanding the metabolic alterations that elicit dependencies and liabilities in signaling pathways to target cancer's Achilles' heel. The research group actively applies metabolic flux analysis panels to cancer cell lines with mutations to understand the full breadth of metabolic diversity in cancer. Their studies are complemented by in vivo analyses of cancer metabolism in mice, with translational efforts designed to understand and exploit the metabolic idiosyncrasies of tumor cells.
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