KyuOk Jeon, PhD
Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior
- : kyuok.jeon@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-4788
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12410-D MRB IV
KyuOk earned a M.S. Chemistry degree in January 2004 from Graduate School of Kangwon National University, South Korea then accepted into the graduate program at the University of Kansas and began her graduate career in January of 2007. During this time, she joined the Prof. Paul Hanson Research Group and worked on development of new methodologies for sultam compounds as well as generation of sultam libraries as a part of KU-CMLD, NIH Center of Excellence in Chemical Methods and Library Development. After earning her Ph.D. degree, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh in Prof. Peter Wipf’s laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow and worked on analogs preparation of (±)-meloscine. In 2014 she joined to Prof. Steve Fesik’s lab at Vanderbilt University as a medicinal chemist and she made contribution to the discovery of Mcl-1 and WDR5 inhibitors. Then she moved to join VICB synthesis core in 2020.