Genetics Research

Genetics play a major role in disease development and these biomedical sciences faculty are working to help improve quality of life for Georgians through genetics research.

Funding Organizations

  • National Institutes of Health

Cancer Research Faculty

  • Pamela Cook

    Pamela Cook, PhD

    Macon

    Dr. Cook’s research focuses on retrotransposons, also known as mobile or junk DNA, which make up a significant proportion of the human genome.
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  • Jong-Hyuk Lee, PhD

    Savannah

    Dr. Lee’s lab focuses on unravelling the causal factors of epigenetic histone modification alterations
    during normal aging and in premature aging disorders.
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    Jinoh Kim, PhD

    Savannah

    Dr. Kim’s laboratory investigates the roles of a subcellular membrane-bound compartment called
    endoplasmic reticulum (ER) with emphasis on protein secretion and ER homeostasis. Dr. Kim’s research
    is implicated in a skeletal disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, and a skeletal muscle disease, nemaline
    myopathy.