Lab News

6/18/2024
We are excited to announce our patent has been granted!

5/7/2024
We are excited to announce our patent notice of allowance for new prognostic markers in high-risk DCIS treatment!

5/1/2024
The Chung Lab was awarded first place at the poster presentation held at the GWCC! Go Chung Lab!

GWCC Retreat first place award.

5/1/2024
At the GWCC Retreat, the Chung Lab presenters (Nate, Abhijeet, Ananya, and Dr. Chung) won first place for their posters! 

Abhijeet, Nate, Ananya and Dr. Chung with one of the posters from the GWCC retreat.
Abhijeet, Nate, Ananya and Dr. Chung with one of the posters from the GWCC retreat.

 

4/3/2024
Dr. Chung was awarded second prize in the physical sciences track at GW’s 2024 Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) Innovation Competition for their technology: Height-controlled mirror for 3D super-resolution nanoscopy. Congratulations to team Chung!

Dr. Chung receiving her prize.

 

10/20/23                                                                                                                                                        Dr. Moungi Bawendi, Dr. Chung's Ph.D. supervisor, is a 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry! The Chung lab is immensely proud of the outstanding achievements of Drs. Bawendi, Brus, and Ekimov!

Dr. Bawendi, Dr. Chung's mentor, has won the Noble Prize in Chemistry!

 

5/5/2023
We received the "Basic Science Outstanding Scientific Quality & Collective Effort Award" at the GWCC Scientific Retreat Poster Session! Go Chung Lab!

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3/30/2023
We are very grateful to receive the Katzen Pilot Grant Award for our research on developing new diagnostic tools for high-risk DCIS!

 

10/30/2022
We are very grateful to receive the Cross Disciplinary Research Fund (2023) for our effort to identify new biomarkers for high-risk DCIS!

 

12/17/2021
We are very grateful to receive the CTSI-CN Grant Award for our deep learning project!

CTSI-CN Grant Award poster
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9/21/2021
We are very grateful to receive the Grant Award from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation for the grant entitled "Targeting ion channels to prevent invasive progression of ductal carcinoma in situ"!

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9/20/2021
Dr. Kangsun Yun joined the Chung lab as a Senior Research Assistant. Welcome, Dr. Yun!

 

9/13/2021
Reddick Walker joined the Chung lab as a graduate rotation student. Welcome, Reddick!

 

9/9/2021
Hyunsoo (Ellie) Yoo joined the Chung lab as an undergraduate volunteer researcher. Welcome, Hyunsoo!

 

8/5/2021
We are very grateful to receive the 2021 Katzen Cancer Research Micro Grant Award for the grant entitled "Developing a deep-learning platform for image segmentation and protein-localization pattern recognition from immunohistochemistry studies"!

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7/20/2021
Prathik Nalamalapu joined the Chung lab as a high school intern. Welcome, Prathik!

 

3/29/2021
Jonathan Smisson joined the Chung lab as an IBS rotation student. Welcome, Jonathan!

 

10/26/2020
Dr. Sulgi John Lee joined the Chung lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome, Sulgi!

 

10/21/2020
We are very pleased to receive a one-year Technology Maturation Award from the Technology Commercialization Office at the GWU for our proposal to create an optical Super Zoom system! 

Technology Commercialization Office of the Provost

 

8/7/2020
Abigail Yohannes in the Anatomical and Translational Science program joined the Chung lab as a student researcher. Welcome, Abby!

 

3/13/2020
We are very pleased to receive a three-year grant award from the National Science Foundation entitled: "Integrated optical imaging and machine-learning platforms for mapping 3D topology of nanoscale cellular structures"!

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9/20/2019
Our conjugation protocol for SMT was published in Bio-protocol. Congratulations, I-Ting and Xiangning!

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7/8/2019
Jore Kotryna Vismante joined the Chung lab as a high school intern. Welcome, Kotryna!

 

5/7/2019
Lauren Butia joined the Chung lab as a high school intern. Welcome, Lauren!

 

5/3/2019
Dr. Chung gave a talk about the lab's research and I-Ting, Xiangning, and Pedro did poster presentations at the GWCC retreat!

 

4/3/2019
Joshree Shrestha joined the Chung lab. Welcome, Joshree!

 

12/17/2018
Dr. Pedro Felipe Gardeazabal Rodriguez joined the Chung lab. Welcome, Pedro!

 

10/8/2018
Dr. Xiangning Bu joined the Chung lab. Welcome, Xiangning!

 

8/28/2018
Dr. Inhee Chung received the 2018 GW Cancer Center Pilot Cancer Grant!

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6/18/2018
Sonika Vuyyuru joined the Chung lab as a high school intern. Welcome, Sonika!

 

1/16/2018
Dr. I-Ting Teng joined the Chung lab. Welcome, I-Ting!

 

12/11/2017
Official start of Chung lab at GW!