SangKon Oh
Professor
Baylor University, Texas
USA
Biography
Dr. SangKon Oh received his PhD degree at the Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and trained at National Cancer Center (NCI, NIH) as a postdoctoral fellow by 2002. He worked as an IPA fellow at NCI in association with the Johns Hopkins University from 2002 to 2005. Dr. Oh joined BIIR in 2005. He is also affiliated with Baylor University at Waco, TX, as an Associate Professor.
Research Interest
Dr. Sangkon Oh research interests are in the area of molecular and immunological functions of DC surface receptors expressed on different subsets of human dendritic cells in healthy and patients. Dr. Oh laboratory has uncovered novel immunological functions of several DC surface lectins, e.g. DC-ASGPR and LOX-1, in controlling host immune responses toward either immunity or tolerance. Dr. Oh’s laboratory has also discovered that monocytes and subsets of DCs in lupus patients express distinct patterns of surface receptors, which could help us understand the mechanisms in which DCs break B cell tolerance in lupus.