Research Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Bong Hwan Sung, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
He got a Ph.D. from the Department of Life Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea advised by Dr. Woo Keun Song. He studied cellular signaling of focal adhesion proteins and extracellular matrix proteins and cell migration in a graduate school.
Then, he joined Alissa Weaver’s lab at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, where he focused on how cortactin promotes cancer cell migration by recycling an ECM protein, fibronectin. This study led him to the field of extracellular vesicles research with experience in Cell Biology providing a new perspective of cell adhesions and migration and extracellular matrix assembly regulated by exosome secretion and with a strong interest in biogenesis and cargo delivery of exosomes to manage cancer cell migration, tumor microenvironment, and cancer severity.