Expertise at Chang Gung System

Lee KY , M.D.,Ph.D.
Intitution:Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung
Position: Attending physician/Physician Researcher
Department: Department of Neurology
Address: No.200, Lane 208, Jijin 1st Rd., Anle District, Keelung City 204, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Tel: (02)24313131-2371 Fax: (02)24327118
E-mail: moritakaky@yahoo.com

Focus of Interest :
  • Neurology

Fulltime Employment:
  1. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ,Nervous Diseases Hopkins Center and Department of Neurology Researcher
  2. Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital physician

Education:
  • PhD of Medicine Department of Microbiology cum molecular genetics, University of Florida (Ph.D.)
  • (Taiwan) Department of Medicine, China Medical University (M.D.)

Honor & Award:
2013 Young investigator award, best poster presentation, IDMC-9 (9th international myotonic dystrophy consortium meeting) San Sebastian, Spain.

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Lee KY*, Li M*, Manchanda M et al. Compound loss of Muscleblind-like function in myotonic dystrophy. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2013 Dec; 5(12):1887-900.
  2. Zhang C, Lee KY, Swanson MS, Darnell RB. Prediction of clustered RNA-binding protein motif sites in the mammalian genome. Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Aug 1;41(14): 6793-807.
  3. Hernández-Hernández O, Guiraud-Dogan C, Sicot G, Huguet A, Luilier S, Steidl E,  Saenger S, Marciniak E, Obriot H, Chevarin C, Nicole A, Revillod L, Charizanis K, Lee KY et al. Myotonic dystrophy CTG expansion affects synaptic vesicle proteins, neurotransmission and mouse behavior. Brain, 2013 Mar; 136(Pt 3):957-70.
  4. Charizanis K, Lee KY, Batra R et al. Muscleblind-Like 2 mediated alternative splicing in the developing brain and dysregulation in myotonic dystrophy. Neuron, 2012 Aug 9; 75(3):437-50.
  5. Suenaga K*, Lee KY* (*joint first authors) Nakamori M et al. Muscleblind-like 1 Knockout Mice Reveal Novel Splicing Defects in the myomyotonic  myotonic Dystrophy Brain. PLoS One, 2012:7(3):e33218 Epub 2012 Mar 13.
Full Publication List

Board Certification:
 (1) Taiwan Neurological Society