NAME: Myung-Shik Lee
DEPT: Medicine
ORGANIZATION: Samsung Medical Center
ADDRESS: 50 Irwon-dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-710, Korea
TELEPHONE No: 82-2-3410-3436
FAX No: 82-2-3410-0388
E MAIL ADDRESS: mslee@smc.samsung.co.kr
TITLE: Professor

TOTAL GRANTS: 700,000 $/yr
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: over 80 international papers
MEMBERSHIPS ON EDITORIAL BOARDS: Frontiers in Bioscience, Current Diabetes Review, Korean-American Medical Association

SUBJECT(S) OF RESEARCH: diabetes, cell death, signal transduction, inflammation, autoimmunity
DISCIPLINE(S): diabetology, immunology, biochemistry, cell biology
ORGAN SYSTEMS: endocrine system, immune system
TISSUES: -
CELL(S): islet beta-cells, macrophages, hepatocytes, muscle cells, adipocytes, lymphocytes
MOLECULE(S): NF-kB, insulin, JNK, IKK, SOD, TRAIL, TNF, Fas, caspases, IFN
TECHNIQUE(S): cell death, immunohistochemistry, adoptive transfer, immune complex kinase assay transgenic mice, knockout mice