Kay Chung
Kay Chung is a systems immunologist who did her bachelor's at Seoul National University, PhD at Stanford, and postdoc at Salk Institute. She just recently gained a professorship in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at UNC. Her current projects include making an atlas of T cell transcription factors and differentiation states, as well as rewiring intracellular signaling pathways to improve CAR-T cell therapy. During her undergraduate and graduate career, she was interested in solving protein structures and engineering improved proteins. Her early work with proteases and protein structures inspired her to synthesize these together to rewire cell signaling. A fun fact about her is that she has an adorable Maltese dog!
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