Sa Kan Yoo


Sa Kan Yoo graduated in medicine from Kobe University. He worked on Ror-Wnt signaling at Dr. Yasuhiro Minami’s lab while he was not working on the wards. He obtained PhD at Anna Huttenlocher lab of University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked on wound responses in zebrafish. He joined Iswar Hariharan’s lab of University of California-Berkeley as a postdoc and investigated mechanisms of tissue repair and oncogenic stress using Drosophila and zebrafish. He was appointed an associate chief scientist at RIKEN in 2015 and then a chief scientist in 2017. Dr. Yoo’s laboratory focuses on mechanisms of responses to various types of stresses such as wound, cancer, malnutrition and aging.