Department of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Youngjin Lee
Dr Youngjin Lee received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the School of Pharmacy at the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. After working a few years as a clinical pharmacist, he moved to United States for studying neuroscience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, and he began to do research on glial biology in the central nervous system (CNS) under the guidance of Dr Michael Brenner.
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
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Glial biology
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Neuron-glia energy metabolic coupling
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Genetically modified mouse model
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Neurological disease
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Neuroglia pharmacology
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Glioma
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Neuron-glioma interaction
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Neuroglia Pharmacology
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Biosensing
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Neurotechnology
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Neurodevelopment
For application of PhD (HKPFS/UGC/Cornell joint program) / Research Assistant / Final Year Project / internship position
email to Dr. Youngjin Lee at "younglee@cityu.edu.hk"
Latest news and events
Abhimanyu Thakur presenting his research poster to a WHO delegate at AACR-2018, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Abhimanyu Thakur receiving "Outstanding Academic Performance Award" from Professor Michael P. Reichel (Dean of CVMLS, City University of Hong Kong)
OAPA-2017 Awardee from Department of Biomedical Sciences: Zhaoyue Wang, Abhimanyu Thakur, Peng Liu, Duc Hoang, Li Hualin Akos, Wenqing He,
AU Ngan Pan Bennett (from left to right side) with Professor Michael P. Reichel (3rd from left)
Prof. M. Yang (6th from the left side) with the awardee of best poster at BMS Research Gala, 2017
Dr. Youngjin Lee, Hannah Tetteh, Abhimanyu Thakur, Gona Choi (From left to right side)
June 2020
Thakur A, Qiu G, Xu C, Han X, Yang T, NG S P, Chan KWY, Wu CML*, Lee Y*. Label free sensing of exosomal MCT1 and CD147 for tracking metabolic and malignant progression of glioma. Science Advances. 2020 (Accepted)
November 2019
Congratulations to Abhimanyu Thakur for being selected for Young Investigator Award-2019 by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)-Korean Cancer Association (KCA) at Seoul, South Korea
September 2019
Congratulations to Tian Yang and Wing Kar Li for starting PhD study.
August 2019
Congratulation! Abhimanyu Thakur (first student of the Dr. Lee's lab) successfully defended his PhD thesis on 1st Aug 2019.
July 2019
Paper Published: Hasan, M., Murugappan, S. K., Wang, J., Ramkrishnan, A. S., Iqbal, Z., Lee, Y. & Li, Y., Schema-like learning and memory consolidation acting through myelination. FASEB Journal. 2019
January 2019
Welcome Wing Kar Li (Research Assistant) to Dr. Lee's lab.
December 2018
Abhimanyu Thakur did an oral presentation at "2018 International Symposium for Nanobiotechnology, Biosensors, and Biochips, Hong Kong".
Accepted Research Paper:
Qiu G, Thakur A, Xu C, Ng SP, Lee Y*, Wu CML*. Detection of Glioma-derived Exosomes with the Biotinylated Antibody-Functionalized Titanium Nitride Plasmonic Biosensor. Advanced Functional Materials. Dec 2018, 1806761
Selected as Cover article
(Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201970056)
September 2018
Welcome Rakesh Sidu (PhD student), Regina (M.Phil student), and Stephanie (FYP student) to Dr. Lee's lab.
August 2018
Welcome Tian Yang (Research Assistant) to Dr. Lee's lab.
In article number 1806761, Youngjin Lee, Chi‐Man Lawrence Wu, and co‐workers demonstrate a novel biotinylated antibody functionalized titanium nitride (TiN) biosensor as an advanced plasmonic material for quantifying glioma‐derived exosomes. By monitoring the total internal reflected light from the TiN‐exosomes interface, the TiN sensor with the biotinylation functionalization achieves its first biosensing application in the detection of glioma‐derived exosomes.
Abhimanyu Thakur participated in AACR-KCA award ceremony at Seoul, South Korea
Abhimanyu Thakur participated receiving the
AACR-KCA Young Investigator Award
April 2018
Abhimanyu Thakur participated in American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual meeting-2018 held at Mc'Cormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Abhimanyu Thakur, Heng Zou, Mengsu Yang, Youngjin Lee. Augmented loading efficiency of doxorubicin into glioma-derived exosomes by an integrated microfluidic device [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3720. (Click here)
Abhimanyu Thakur (5th from left) met with Prof. Goyal (6th from left) and his team at AACR-2018, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 2018
Congratulations to Abhimanyu Thakur who had been selected by College of Veterinary medicine & Life Sciences (CVMLS), CityU and the "Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2018" organising committee for a travel grant to participate in the GYSS-2018, North, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The GYSS is a gathering of young scientists and researchers (PhD students and postdocs) from all over the world, with eminent international science and technology leaders ('speakers') in Singapore. It is a multi-disciplinary summit, covering topics ranging from chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, computer science and engineering. Speakers invited to the GYSS@one-north are globally recognized scientific leaders, who are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Millennium Technology Prize, Turing Award and IEEE Medal of Honour.
Abhimanyu Thakur presenting his research poster to Prof. Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2013).
Abhimanyu Thakur with Prof. Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Prize in Physics (2015), Director of at the University of Tokyo.
Abhimanyu Thakur with Prof. Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008)
Abhimanyu Thakur (3rd from left) with Prof François Englert (5th from left), Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) and other nominated participants of GYSS-2018
19th October 2017
Dr. Lee received the "Early Career Award 2017/18" by Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong
22nd August 2017
Abhimanyu Thakur was conferred with "CityU-SGS-Research Scholarship (2017-18)" and "Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA)-2017" at CityU Hong Kong.
5th June 2017
Abhimanyu Thakur was conferred with "Best Poster Award" and an international conference travel grant of HKD 5000 in BMS Research gala, 2017, CityU Hong Kong
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15th May 2017
Arijit Ghosh joined Dr. Lee's lab as a senior research assistant (SRA).
23rd March 2017
Research higlight
ExosomeRNA - an online platform highlighted "Direct detection of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles by self-assembly gold nanoisland-LSPR biosensor"
18th March 2017
Accepted Research Paper:
Thakur A#, Qiu G#, NG SP, Guan J, Yue J, Lee Y*, Wu CML*. Direct detection of two different tumor-derived extracellular vesicles by SAM-AuNIs LSPR biosensor. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 94(2017): 400-407
Manuscript highlighted by ExosomeRNA (Source: https://www.exosome-rna.com/direct-detection-of-tumor-derived-extracellular-vesicles-by-self-assembly-gold-nanoisland-lspr-biosensor/)
December 2016
Abhimanyu Thakur was conferred with "Best Presentation Award" in "PhD Student Research Seminar", BMS, CityU.
Prof. Michael Yang (Right side) conferring award to Abhimanyu Thakur
Dr. Youngjin Lee (left side) with Abhimanyu Thakur
