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Investigating Systemic Tumor-Host Interactions

Welcome!

The Jung Kim lab focuses on this fundamental question, "How do tumors actually kill their hosts?".

Using simple and powerful Drosophila cancer models,

we investigate the effects of tumor-induced systemic stress on host morbidity and mortality.

For more information, please visit our Research page.

Latest News

2026-4-20

Andreas, Yuchen and Harold joined the 4th Asia-Pacific Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in Shenzhen.

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2026-3-19

Thank you Professor David Bilder for visiting us! He also gave an interesting talk.

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2026-3-9

Andreas gave a good presentation and Jingyi received HKUPS. Congrats both!

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2026-3-6

Renee joined and presented her work at the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago!

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2025-12-11

Renee presented her work at the SBMS 10th Anniversary Celebration -- Research Symposium and got the Outstanding student award! Congratulations!!!

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2025-9-9

Welcome Wendy!!!!

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2025-9-1

Welcome Jingyi!!!!

2025-7-23

Welcome Victor!!!!

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2025-6-9

Presentation at the ZJU-UoE Institute Exchange Programme 2025

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2025-6-5

Harold did a good job in presenting his work at the SBMS first year RPG seminar

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2025-5-15

Renee and Yuchen presented their work at the SBMS RPG symposium! Good job!!

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2025-3-11

Congratulations on Andreas's prestigious HKU-Presidential Scholarship!

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2025-2-13

Yuna joined the lab as an internship student. Welcome!!

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2024-11-21

Presentation at the University of Barcelona

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Prof. Caroline Mauvezin

2024-10-11

Meeting with Prof. Kweon Yu!

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2024-10-11

HUGE CONGRATS!!! Renee's first publication is out!

Check out her interesting story!

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2024-6-26

Presentation at the 53th Annual Meeting of Korean Drosophila Society

2024-6-6

Renee and Yuchen's First Year RPG seminar! Great job!!

2024-5-21

Renee presented her project at the RPG poster presentation! Nice work!

2024-3-25

Renee's story is available in BioRxiv! Great job!

Please check her exciting science.

2024-2-1

Andreas joined the Jung Kim Lab. Welcome!!!

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2024-1-20

Presentation at 29th Medical Research Conference

2023-10-18~20

Invited to International Conferences of the Genetics Society of Korea (ICGSK) 2023

Busan, South Korea

2023-08-29

Yuchen, Harold, and Tiffany joined. Welcome all~!

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Harold

Tiffany

2023-07-17

Chelsea joined the lab as a summer intern.

Welcome, Chelsea!!!

2023-06-26

The collaborative work with the Bilder lab is out!

2023-03-15

Tom joined the lab as a technical officer.

Welcom, Tom!!!

2022-11-07

Renee joined the lab as a Research Assistant.

Welcome, Renee!!!

2022-09-16

Jung's seminar at HKUST

2022-09-01

Start working with an amazing technical officer, Carmen. Welcome~!

2022-09-01

The Jung Kim lab has been initiated!

Office (L4-61, Laboratory block)

Lab (L4-38, Laboratory block)

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