User:Michael Hwang
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- Michael Hwang
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Major: Course 20
- Minor: Course 15
- Residence: Baker House, MIT
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Research Summary: I worked in the lab of Prof. Richard Hynes my freshman year, and in the lab of Prof. Robert Weinberg my sophomore year. This past summer, I worked at Genentech under David Dornan and Jeff Settleman, and for two summers in high school I worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the lab of Beatrice Knudsen.
Education
- 2013, BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests
- Novel regulators of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the context of cancer metastasis and cancer stem cells
- Modeling drug resistance and sensitivity, specifically EGFR inhibitors in cancer