Jungwoo Wren Kim

Jungwoo Wren Kim

CMP PhD Student

Institute for Cell Engineering, JHU


Awards and Honors

Doctoral Scholarship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) (2010-2015)

The David Israel Macht Research Award (2017)

Research Interests

Studying the regulatory mechanisms of mRNA translation in neurons.

Publications

  1. Martin I, Kim JW, Dawson VL, Dawson TM. LRRK2 pathobiology in Parkinson’s disease. J. Neurochem. 2014 Dec;131(5):554–65. Review.
  2. Martin I, Abalde-Atristain L, Kim JW, Dawson TM, Dawson VL. Aberrant protein synthesis in G2019S LRRK2 Drosophila Parkinson disease-related phenotypes. Fly (Austin). 2014 Jul 3;8(3):165–9.
  3. Martin I, Kim JW, Lee BD, Kang HC, Xu J-C, Jia H, Stankowski J, Kim M-S, Zhong J, Kumar M, Andrabi SA, Xiong Y, Dickson DW, Wszolek ZK, Pandey A, Dawson TM, Dawson VL. Ribosomal protein s15 phosphorylation mediates LRRK2 neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Cell. 2014 Apr 10;157(2):472–85.
    Highlighted in Cell, 157(2) 291-293.
    Highlighted in ACS Chemical Biology, 9(5) 1067-1069.
    Highlighted in Movement Disorders, 29(8) 990.