- 1st Year Resident - PGYII
Education & Training
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MD/PHD, Medical Scientist Training Program - UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
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B.S., UCLA Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Representative Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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\
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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