Titles and Roles
- Research Scientist II, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine
- Research Program
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Biography
Soojung Lee, PhD, is a research scientist in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Lee is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Education
Dr. Lee obtained her PhD and MS from Department of Food Science & Technology, College of Engineering at Kyungsung University in Busan, South Korea. She completed her post doctoral training with fellowship in the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University in Denmark and in the Department of Physiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she received training in pH regulation, and cell and molecular cancer biology.
Research
Dr. Lee's research focuses on physiological and pathophysiological roles of Na/HCO3 cotransporters in acid/base homeostasis and cancer development. As a postdoctoral fellow and then an assistant professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, she extensively carried out acid/base transporter experiments and established new techniques that detect pH changes in breast cancer cells. In particular, she demonstrated cellular net acid extrusion during breast carcinogenesis, tumor-free survival, and tumor growth rate slc4a7 knockout mice following chemical breast cancer induction. The goal of her research is to understand the effects of acidic pH environments on cancer growth and motility.
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