Seock-Won Youn, PhD

Seock-Won Youn, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Additionally, he is Director for the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Viral Vector Core and Research Assistant Professor in the lab of University of Illinois Cancer Center Director Jan Kitajewski, PhD. His research interests are the functions of the liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) in liver diseases including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and metabolic dysfunctional associated steatohepatitis (MASH). Because cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with MASLD/MASH and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), he focuses on how pathological angiogenesis of LSECs regulates the acceleration of liver diseases (MASLD, MASH and HCC) and CVD progression.

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