Dr. Won Huh

Biography

Won Jae Huh completed his medical education at Seoul National University in South Korea and pursued his Ph.D. training in Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. His Ph.D. thesis work focused on transcriptional regulation of gastric chief cell differentiation under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Mills. Won Jae completed his residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Gastrointestinal Liver Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His postdoctoral research training involved studying EGFR and Notch signaling crosstalk in gastric premalignant conditions under Dr. Robert Coffey at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has been a recipient of the NIDDK Clinical Scientist Career Development Award and served as an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center prior to joining the Department of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine in 2021. His research interests are concentrated on cellular changes in pre-cancerous stomach lesions and mucosal injuries, aiming to uncover pathways that lead to new treatments.

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