Sohee K. Yoon, Ph.D.

About Sohee K.

Sohee Kim Yoon is a technology specialist and patent agent in the Washington, D.C., office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Dr. Yoon’s practice supports patent prosecution in areas of biotechnology and life sciences. Dr. Yoon has extensive research experience in molecular biology and biomedical sciences.

Publications 

Sohee Kim*, Kelsey N, Schafer*, Anastasios Matzavinos, and Jeff Kuret, “Selectivity requirements for diagnostic imaging of neurofibrillary lesions in Alzheimer’s disease: a simulation study,” Neuroimage, In press (January 2012) *contributed equally to this work

Edward Chang, Sohee Kim, Kelsey Schafer, Jeff Kuret, “Pseudophosphorylation of tau protein directly modulates its aggregation kinetics,” Biochim Biophys Acta, 1814, pp.388-395 (February 2011)

Sohee Kim, Jordan R. Jensen, Katryn Cisek, Kristen E. Funk, Swati Naphade, Kelsey Schafer, and Jeff Kuret, “Imaging as a strategy for premortem diagnosis and staging of taupathies,” Current Alzheimer Research, 7, pp.203-234 (May 2010)

Edward Chang, Micolette S. Honson, Bhaswati Bandyopadhyay, Kristen E. Funk, Jordan R. Jensen, Sohee Kim, Swati Naphade, and Jeff Kuret, “Modulation and dection of tau aggregation with small-molecule ligands,” Current Alzheimer Research, 6, pp.409-414 (October 2009)

Edward Chang, Sohee Kim, Haishin Yin, Haikady N. Nagaraja, and Jeff Kuret, “Pathogenic missense MAPT mutations differentially modulate tau aggregation propensity at nucleation and extension steps,” Journal of Neurochemistry, 207 pp.1113-1123 (November 2008)

Erin Congdon*, Sohee Kim*, Jonathan Bonchak, Tanakorn Songrug, Anastasios Matzavinos, and Jeff Kuret, “Nucleation-depentant tau filament formation – The importance of dimerization and an estimation of elementary rate constants,” Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283, pp.13806-16 (May 2008)

Sohee Kim*, Soon-Young Kwon*, Kyounghwa Lee, Tae Jin Kim, Seung-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Mi Lee, and Gil Hong Park, “Increased methylation of the cytosolic 20-kD protein is accompanied by liver regeneration in a hepatectomized rat,” Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 36, pp. 85-92 (February 2004)

*contributed equally to the work