Students

Name: Christy Kim
Major Professor: Reen Wu
Department: Internal Medicine (School of Medicine)
Lab Phone: 530-752-6960
Email: cmkkim@ucdavis.edu
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Degrees
BS - UC Davis - Biochemistry - 2004

Research Interests
Determine whether a developmental approach that mimics normal lung development (ie. embryoid bodies, definitive endoderm enrichment) is effective in directing the differentiation of hESCs in vitro toward an airway epithelial lineage for therapeutic application of respiratory diseases.
 
Publications
Kao, C. Y., Kim, C., Huang, F., and Wu, R. (2008). Requirements for two proximal NF-kappa B binding sites and Ikappa B-zeta in IL-17A-induced human beta -defensin 2 expression by conducting airway Epithelium. The Journal of biological chemistry.