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Youngwook Won

  • Associate Professor, Surgery
  • Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 626-5331
  • Medical Research Building, Rm. 120
  • Tucson, AZ 85724
  • youngwookwon@arizona.edu
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  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Awards

  • NSF I-Corps Award
    • NSF, Summer 2017

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Courses

2020-21 Courses

  • Rsrch Meth Biomed Engr
    BME 592 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Directed Research
    ACBS 492 (Spring 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    BIOC 498H (Spring 2020)
  • Directed Research
    NSCS 392 (Fall 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    BIOC 498H (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Honors Directed Research
    BIOC 392H (Spring 2019)
  • Thesis
    PHCL 910 (Spring 2019)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Cha, B., Jung, M., Kim, A. S., Lepak, V. C., Colson, B., Bull, D. A., & Won, Y. (2021). AZD2014, a dual mTOR inhibitor, attenuates cardiac hypertrophy in vitro and in vivo. Cells.
  • Khandelwal Gilman, K. A., Han, S., Won, Y. W., & Putnam, C. W. (2021). Complex interactions of lovastatin with 10 chemotherapeutic drugs: a rigorous evaluation of synergism and antagonism. BMC cancer, 21(1), 356.
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    Evidence bearing on the role of statins in the prevention and treatment of cancer is confounded by the diversity of statins, chemotherapeutic agents and cancer types included in the numerous published studies; consequently, the adjunctive value of statins with chemotherapy remains uncertain.
  • Lim, K. S., Lee, D. Y., Han, S., Bull, D. A., & Won, Y. (2021). Targeted delivery of heat shock protein 90 inhibitors prevents growth of HER2-positive tumor. Biomaterials.
  • Martin, D. R., Unger, E. C., Bull, D. A., Zhao, M., Desai, A. A., Chen, Q., Furenlid, L. R., Won, Y., Wan, L., Gupta, A., Barber, C., & Liu, Z. (2018). Imaging Assessment of Cardioprotection Mediated by a Dodecafluoropentane Oxygen-Carrier Administered During Myocardial Infarction. Nuclear Medicine and Biology.
  • Putnam, C. W., Won, Y., Han, S., & Khandelwal Gilman, K. A. (2021). Complex interactions of lovastatin with 10 chemotherapeutic drugs: a rigorous evaluation of synergism and antagonism.. BMC Cancer, 21(1), 356 - 371. doi:10.1186/s12885-021-07963-w
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    The published study rigorously examined the interactions of the prototypic statin, lovastatin, with various commonly prescribed chemotherapeutic agents in two models: S. cerevisiae and cell culture.
  • Lee, D. Y., Cha, B., Jung, M., Kim, A. S., Bull, D. A., & Won, Y. (2018). Cell surface engineering and application in cell delivery to heart diseases. Journal of Biological Engineering, 12(1), 28.
  • Lee, D. Y., Lim, K. S., Valencia, G. M., Jung, M., Bull, D. A., & Won, Y. (2018). One-Step Method for Instant Generation of Advanced Allogeneic NK Cells. ADVANCED SCIENCE, 5(11).

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