Dr. Yong Yean Kim's lab is interested in translational science to bring new therapies to clinical trials. In particular, they are interested in pediatric sarcomas which have not had advancement in clinical treatment for decades. Current projects in the lab focus on understanding of the biology of fusion transcription factor PAX3::FOXO1 which is the driver mutation in fusion positive rhabdomyosarcoma. PAX3::FOXO1 is a powerful oncogenic transcription factor which rewires the transcriptional organization to lock the cancer cell in the proliferative state.
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisors: Adam de la Zerda and Steven Chu
Talk Title: Landing the first private robotic mission on the moon and Developing imaging device for recording cancer cell communication
Event: Forbes Under 30 Summit EMEA - Yonatan was invited to this event as one of Forbes Israel's 30 Under 30 in 2017.
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Kool
Talk Title: Discovery of small molecule activators of single-strand selective monofunctional uracil DNA glycosylase
Event: ACS National Meeting Fall 2022
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Kilian Pohl and Michael Zeineh
Talk Title: Volumetric Histology via High-Fidelity Coregistration with MRI
Event: 2025 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - Yixin receive the “Trainee Travel Award” and “Magna cum Laude Merit Award” at the event.
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Integrating electrokinetics with AI-assisted Raman spectroscopy for bacterial detection in wastewater
Event: PRiME (246th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS))
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Combining surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy and electrokinetics for bacterial monitoring in wastewater
Event: 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Empirical energy weighting optimization for fast grayscale image generation with photon counting CT
Event: RSNA 2023 Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Empirical optimization of energy bin weights for compressing measurements with photon counting x-ray detectors
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2022
Awarded in 2021
Talk Title: Analytical model for pulse pileup in photon counting detectors with seminonparalyzable behavior
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2021
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Kool
Talk Title: Biomolecular labeling with combinatorial oligodeoxyfluorosides
Event: 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
