Editorial Board
Soonmoon Yoo
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children · United States
Editorial leadership for Journal of DNA And RNA Research ISSN 2575-7881
Research interests
- My Research Interests Have Focused On Cellular
- Molecular Mechanisms Underlying The Transport Of Axonal Mrnas
- The Regulation Of Local Protein Synthesis In Regenerating Axons. The Long-Term Goal Of My Research Is To Uncover The Specificity Of Axonal Mrna Translation
- To Understand The Molecular Mechanisms That Regulate Local De Novo Protein Synthesis During Neuronal Repair
- Regeneration. Determining Mechanisms That Lead To Regeneration In The Pns At A Molecular Level Will Identify New Pathways That Can Be Therapeutically Targeted For Cns Injury
- Potentially Other Degenerative Neurological Diseases In Humans. Therefore
- My Research Interests Focus On Control Of Local Protein Synthesis Within The Axonal Compartment At Different Levels Of Neuronal Activity (E.g
- During Regeneration) Could Potentially Lead To Develop Rna-Based Approaches For The Therapy Of Neurological Disorders. In Particular
- My Current Research Is Aimed At I.) Regulation Of Intra-Axonal Protein Synthesis/Mrna
- Small Non-Coding Regulatory Rna Transport
- Ii.) Biological Function Of These Newly Synthesized Proteins In Axonal Regeneration Regenerating Axons
Biography
- Dr. Soonmoon Yoo is currently a research scientist and head of molecular regeneration and neuroimaging laboratory in Nemours Biomedical Research department at AIDHC.
- Dr. Yoo was born in South Korea and received a B.S in Biology from Chung-Ang University in 1994 after having served in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps for three years.
- He went on to earn a master in medicine in Biochemistry from the School of Medicine in 1996.
- He came to the U.S to earn a Ph.D in Neurobiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2002.
- He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. prior to joining Nemours Biomedical Research Department as a postdoctoral fellow in 2006.
- His work as a postdoctoral research was recognized and received a post-doctoral fellowship award, funding for two years, from Craig H. Neilsen Foundation in 2009.
- He has been also awarded funding for 5 years through the NIH IDeA program as a target investigator in 2010 and promoted to an assistant research scientist as a head of molecular regeneration and neuroimaging laboratory.
- One of his research projects was successfully validated by his NIH/NINDS R21 award in 2013.
- Since then Dr. Yoo has been conducting research as a research scientist and mentoring graduate students from the department of biological sciences at the university of delaware as an affiliated scientist.
Selected publications
- Analysis of piRNA-Like Small Non-coding RNAs Present in Axons of Adult Sensory Neurons 2016 cited 40×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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