Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Education
Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Mailing address:
833 S. Wood Street (MC 886), Room 164
Chicago, IL 60612
Office: 900 S. Ashland Ave, Room 3220 Laboratory: 900 S. Ashland Ave, Room 3218 Phone: 312-996-7820 Fax: 312-996-0379
E-mail: yjeong at uic edu [1], hyunyoung.jeong at gmail com [2]
Research Interests
Pharmacokinetics: Altered drug metabolism during pregnancy; preclinical drug development; gut microbiota as a drug-eliminating organ
Molecular Pharmacology: Regulation of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes
Pharmacogenomics: Pharmacogenomics of drug-metabolizing enzymes
Toxicology: Role of gut microbiota in drug-induced toxicity
Activities
Sungjoon's poster abstract submitted to 2017 Liver Meeting was selected as a Presidential Poster of Distinction. This is an honor given to the top 10% of scored abstracts. Sungjoon's poster is entitled: Commensal gut microbiota modulates susceptibility to acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity. (Oct 2017)
Young received a R01 entitled "Molecular basis of altered drug metabolism during pregnancy" from NICHD. This is a translational research project in collaboration with clinicians at Northwestern University of researchers at University of Washington at Seattle. (August 2017)
Sungjoon Cho won 2nd place in podia competition at the 48th Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research Meeting (PGSRM), hosted by the University of Michigan. Congratulations! (June 2017)
Sungjoon Cho is a recipient of the Spring 2017 Provost Deiss Award. Congratulations! (April 2017) [3]
Young received ASPET Drug Metabolism Early Career Achievement Award. (April 2017) [4]
Young was appointed as the Director of Graduate Education at the College of Pharmacy. (Oct 2016)
Miaoran Ning received AAPS Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations! [5](May 2016)
Miaoran Ning received UIC Chancellor's Graduate Research Award. Congratulations! (January 2016)
Young received Chicago Biomedical Consortium Catalyst Award to study roles of gut microbiota in drug toxicity and efficacy. This is a 2-year collaborative project with Dr. Eugene Chang at University of Chicago [6]. (December 2015)
