Jooeun Kang

I am a molecular biologist turned computational biologist, looking to find new discoveries in the molecular mechanisms involved in psychiatric diseases using genetic and electronic health record tools. As a physician scientist, I would like to build my career on building and optimizing tools for better risk stratification, treatment response prediction, and adverse event prevention. I studied genetics of psychiatric diseases under the guidance of Dr. Douglas Ruderfer. My thesis project is on exploring the genetic architecture of suicide attempt, and how it interacts with many psychiatric phenotypes including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and eating disorders. Ultimately, I would like to extrapolate concepts I learned with suicide and depression genetics to create translational risk prediction tools in acute care clinical settings that combines clinical risk models and genetic risk scores.