Faculty
Hematology Division
Yoon-A Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Hematology Division
Research Interests
- Hematopoietic stem cells
- Multipotent progenitor
- Cell fate decision
- Lineage specification
Contact
- 314-273-5954 (office)
- 314-273-5991 (lab)
- yoonakang@wustl.edu
- Division of Hematology
Mail Stop 8125-0020-08
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110 - Room 8832A, Clinical Sciences Research Building (office)
- Room 8832, Clinical Sciences Research Building (lab)
- Kang lab website
Biosketch
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 2004 | BS in Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
| 2006 | MSc in Cancer Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
| 2013 | PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI |
| 2013-2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
| 2017-2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Emmanuelle Passegue, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University, New York, NY |
| Academic Positions & Employment | |
| 2021-present | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology Division, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO |
| Honors & Awards | |
| 2001 | Yonsei Scholarship, Yonsei University |
| 2002 | High Honors Student, Yonsei University |
| 2004-2006 | Brain Korea 21 Project Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, Republic of Korea |
| 2011-2013 | American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 2012 | CMB Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2012 | American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award |
| 2015-2016 | UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research Postdoctoral Research Award |
| 2017 | International Society for Experimental Hematology Travel Grant Award |
| 2017-2019 | Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Career Development Program Grant (Special Fellow) |
| 2020 | International Society for Experimental Hematology Virtual Travel Grant Award |
| 2021 | FASEB's Hematologic Malignancies Conference Outstanding Abstract Award |
| 2021 | International Society for Experimental Hematology Virtual Travel Grant Award |
