User:Michael Hwang

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Michael Hwang (an artistic interpretation)

• 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

1. Novel regulators of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the context of cancer metastasis and cancer stem cells
2. Modeling drug resistance and sensitivity, specifically EGFR inhibitors in cancer

Publications

• Putzke AP., Ventura AP., Bailey AM., Akture C., Opoku-Ansah J., Celiktas M., Hwang MS., Darling DS., Coleman IM., Nelson PS., Nguyen HM., Corey E., Tewari M., Morrissey C., Vesella RL., Knudsen BS., Metastatic Progression of Prostate Cancer And E-Cadherin: Regulation by Zeb1 and Src Family Kinases. American Journal of Pathology. 2011 Jul; 179(1):400-10. Epub 2011 May 4.

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