Young Rock Chung

Young Rock received his BS in biochemistry from Stony Brook University, SUNY, and got an MS in biology from New York University. He joined the Levine lab and subsequently the Abdel-Wahab lab as a technician and a lab manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Then he moved to Chicago to earn a PhD in Life Sciences under Dr. Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster at Northwestern University where he studied the effect of B cell therapy in chronic viral infection and the antitumoral effect of LCMV in murine melanoma model. He joined the Parry lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow and is co-mentored by Dr. Erin Parry and Dr. Catherine Wu. His work focuses on molecular mechanisms in immune response, specifically on the regulation of transcription factors in T-cell differentiation after antigen stimulation.