{"id":2106,"date":"2018-10-05T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/?page_id=2106"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:39:22","slug":"gyungah-jun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/genetics-people\/faculty\/gyungah-jun\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyungah Jun, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span><\/span>Associate Professor<\/strong>
\nBiomedical Genetics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
\n72 East Concord Street E206, Boston, MA 02118
\nPhone:<\/strong> 617-358-3581
\nFax:<\/strong> 617-358-3551
\nEmail:<\/strong> gyungah@bu.edu<\/a>
\nJun\u2019s Lab website: <\/strong>https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/junlab\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
\nM.C.I.S. Computer and Information Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
\nM.S. Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
\nB.A. Agricultural Biology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n

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Scientific Appointments<\/strong>
\n2020-present
\nAssociate Director, Genetic and Molecular Profiling Core at Boston University Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research Center\u00a0 (ADRC)
\n2020-present
\nDirector, Genome Guided Drug Discovery Core at AI4AD
\n2020-present
\nChairs of Data Management and Analysis Workgroup, Asian Cohort for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (ACAD)
\n2021-present
\nSteering Committee Member, Multi-Ethnic Project, Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)
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\nOther Employment<\/strong>
\n2000-2006
\nAnalyst Programmer II, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
\n2006-2009
\nAnalyst Programmer III, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
\n2015-2018
\nDirector and Head, Neurogenetics and Integrated Genomics, Andover Innovative Medicines Institute, Eisai Inc., Andover, MA
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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Jun is Associate Professor, Biomedical Genetics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Jun has been involved in the Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Genetics Consortium and the International Genomics of Alzheimer\u2019s Project to identify AD risk genes within APOE<\/em> genotype subgroups and across multi-ethnic populations. Dr. Jun previously worked at an industry position as a Director and Head of Neurogenetics and Integrated Genomics for Andover Innovative Medicines (AiM) Institute, Eisai Inc., where she was involved in genome-guided drug discovery projects in AD. After rejoining a full-time faculty position in 2018, she has contributed to establish large collaborated research programs. Dr. Jun is a founding member and one of four PIs for the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (ACAD) Consortium and Chairs in two workgroups, Data Management and Data Analysis. Dr. Jun is a Director at the Genome Guided Drug Discovery (GGDD) Core at the AI4AD consortium, which is a large coordinated national initiative for AD therapeutics will feature transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches using high throughput human big data. Dr. Jun is also a Steering Committee member at the large Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program (FHS-BAP), where she is leading genetic and molecular profiling using genomics and brain omics data in FHS to identify AD signatures from blood and brain. In addition, she has extended her interest in identification of APOE2 protective mechanisms against AD to establish a new cohort for prevention and treatment trials to target APOE for AD therapeutics<\/p>\n

Research Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n