Seminar: Chemical biology of proteases in cancer and immunity

Euna Yoo received an undergraduate degree in pharmacy from Ewha Womans University in 2007. At Ewha, she worked with Prof. Hea-Young Park Choo and continued to pursue a Master’s degree in the area of medicinal chemistry studying serotonergic receptor antagonists. After receiving her M.Sc. in 2009, she moved to the University of Kansas and obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Medicinal Chemistry under the mentorship of Prof. Sunil David in 2015. During her graduate studies, she performed research on the synthesis and biological evaluation of Toll-like receptor agonists as potential vaccine adjuvants. She then joined the laboratory of Prof. Matthew Bogyo at Stanford University. Her research as a postdoctoral fellow focused on the development of activity-based probes and covalent inhibitors to study the functional roles of proteases. She joined the Chemical Biology Laboratory in 2019 as a Stadtman Investigator.