Department of Dermatology

Yeon Joo "Ashley" Kim, MD, PhD

  • 1st Year Resident - PGYII

Education & Training

  • MD/PHD, Medical Scientist Training Program - UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
  • B.S., UCLA Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

Representative Publications

  1. Kim, Y. J., Sheu, K. M., Tsoi, J., Abril-Rodriguez, G., Medina, E., Grasso, C. S., Torrejon, D. Y., Champhekar, A. S., Litchfield, K., Swanton, C., Speiser, D. E., Scumpia, P. O., Hoffmann, A., Graeber, T. G., Puig-Saus, C., & Ribas, A. (2021). Melanoma dedifferentiation induced by interferon-gamma epigenetic remodeling in response to anti-PD-1 therapy. The Journal of clinical investigation, 145859. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI145859
  2. Grasso, C. S., Tsoi, J., Onyshchenko, M., Abril-Rodriguez, G., Ross-Macdonald, P., Wind-Rotolo, M., Champhekar, A., Medina, E., Torrejon, D. Y., Shin, D. S., Tran, P., Kim, Y. J., Puig-Saus, C., Campbell, K., Vega-Crespo, A., Quist, M., Martignier, C., Luke, J. J., Wolchok, J. D., Johnson, D. B., … Ribas, A. (2020). Conserved Interferon-γ Signaling Drives Clinical Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy in Melanoma. Cancer cell, 38(4), 500–515.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2020.08.005
  3. Grasso, C. S., Giannakis, M., Wells, D. K., Hamada, T., Mu, X. J., Quist, M., Nowak, J. A., Nishihara, R., Qian, Z. R., Inamura, K., Morikawa, T., Nosho, K., Abril-Rodriguez, G., Connolly, C., Escuin-Ordinas, H., Geybels, M. S., Grady, W. M., Hsu, L., Hu-Lieskovan, S., Huyghe, J. R., Kim, Y. J., … Peters, U. (2018). Genetic Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer discovery, 8(6), 730–749. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-1327\
  4. Mehta, A.*, Kim, Y. J.*, Robert, L., Tsoi, J., Comin-Anduix, B., Berent-Maoz, B., Cochran, A. J., Economou, J. S., Tumeh, P. C., Puig-Saus, C., & Ribas, A. (2018). Immunotherapy Resistance by Inflammation-Induced Dedifferentiation. Cancer discovery, 8(8), 935–943. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-1178 (*Co-First author)
  5. Ueno, M., Lee, L. K., Chhabra, A., Kim, Y. J., Sasidharan, R., Van Handel, B., Wang, Y., Kamata, M., Kamran, P., Sereti, K. I., Ardehali, R., Jiang, M., & Mikkola, H. K. (2013). c-Met-dependent multipotent labyrinth trophoblast progenitors establish placental exchange interface. Developmental cell, 27(4), 373–386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2013.10.019
  6. Lee, L. K., Ghorbanian, Y., Wang, W., Wang, Y., Kim, Y. J., Weissman, I. L., Inlay, M. A., & Mikkola, H. (2016). LYVE1 Marks the Divergence of Yolk Sac Definitive Hemogenic Endothelium from the Primitive Erythroid Lineage. Cell reports, 17(9), 2286–2298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.10.080
  7. Kim, Y. J., Lek, M. T., & Schramm, M. P. (2011). pH influenced molecular switching with micelle bound cavitands. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 47(34), 9636–9638. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc12901e