Chee Yeun Chung

Dr. Chee Yeun Chung is a member of Yumanity’s core research team and is a scientific co-founder who made seminal contributions to both the company’s neuronal and yeast discovery platforms. Dr. Chung is a graduate of Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea, where she earned a bachelor of pharmacy degree. She then obtained her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining Yumanity, she was an instructor at Harvard Medical School, subsequently joining the Lindquist lab at the Whitehead Institute as a senior research scientist in 2009. She developed assays that have identified abnormalities in rat and human iPSc-based cortical neuron culture system, revealing critical mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.