Dr. Ah Jung Heo
Ah Jung was born in the Republic of Korea. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2014 and at Yonsei University, Seoul Korea. Then she obtained her combined MS/Ph.D degree in 2022 at Seoul National University, Seoul Korea. Her thesis was focused on cellular degradative biology in the Arg/N-degron pathway in the context of oxidative stress and hypoxia. In April 2023, she joined the laboratory of Ivan Dikic as a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the biochemical properties of membrane E3 ligases in the context of cancer pathogenesis.