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Hojoon Lee is working on the detection of tumor-specific peptides as a research associate in molecular and cellular biology as part of the Biodesign rotation program.
Using a computational approach, Mr. Lee is attempting to understand tumor-specific peptides that result from chromosomal frame-shifts or translocations. Expressed sequence tag libraries of tumor and normal tissues are subjected to comparisons at protein and DNA levels to detect new peptides in tumor tissue. The tumor-specific peptides confirmed by molecular biology will be vaccine candidates.
His research interests are in computational biology, comparative genomics and sequencing.