Jessie Jeon's Biography

Jessie Jeon, Associate Professor, KAIST

Dr. Jessie S. Jeon is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. She received her SB, SM, and PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and worked as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) before joining KAIST. Her research focuses on the development of microfluidic platforms that can mimic organs and disease models for understanding the mechanisms of biological phenomenon, screening for drugs and utilizing them in patient-specific personalized medicine.

Microphysiological System for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing

Friday, 8 November 2024 at 11:30

Add to Calendar ▼2024-11-08 11:30:002024-11-08 12:30:00Europe/LondonMicrophysiological System for Disease Modeling and Drug TestingLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, and Organ-on-a-Chip Asia 2024 in Tokyo, JapanTokyo, JapanSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

3D in vitro microphysiological systems are developed for mimicking different disease models and to be used as drug screening assays. I will describe developed systems for investigating human cancer microenvironment and its usage in anti-cancer drug delivery. The developed system enables recreation of different aspects of cancer microenvironment with vasculature and either organ-specific cells or immune cells in addition to cancer cells. The advantages of using microfluidic systems as disease model and drug screening assay include requiring only small sample volume, minimized manual repetition and relatively fast turnout time. Overall, the microfluidic model developed can reproduce different pathological microenvironment, and can give the insights on drug efficacies for particular microenvironments.

Add to Calendar ▼2024-11-07 00:00:002024-11-08 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, and Organ-on-a-Chip Asia 2024Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, and Organ-on-a-Chip Asia 2024 in Tokyo, JapanTokyo, JapanSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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