Principal Investigator

Young-Ah Seo, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry 
University of Michigan School of Public Health
3850 SPHI, 1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Phone: (734) 763-0745
Email: youngseo@umich.edu
Curriculum vitae [pdf]

Education​

• Research associate, Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 2016
• Postdoctoral research fellows, Genetics & Complex Diseases and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 2014
• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2012
• B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2004

Honors & Awards

• 2019  E. L. R. Stokstad Outstanding Young Investigator Award given for fundamental research in nutrition, The American Society for Nutrition
• 2019 Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) “Pathway to Independence” Award, University of Michigan
• 2018 Early-Career Faculty Investigator Grant Award (Inaugural), Neurodegeneration of brain iron accumulation (NBIA) association
• 2016 Grand Prize of the Postdoctoral Research Award, The American Society for Nutrition
• 2014 NIH/NIEHS K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence” Award
• 2012 Robert Gunn Student Award for Cell and Molecular Physiology, The American Physiological Society
• 2011 Grand Prize of the Vitamin and Mineral Research Poster Competition, The American Society for Nutrition
• 2010 Grand Prize of the Graduate Student Research Award Competition, The American Society for Nutrition
• 2010 Wrigley Science Institute Predoctoral Fellowship for Students in Nutrition Research, The American Society for Nutrition

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Lab members 

Eun-kyeong Choi, PhD 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2019-2020 Dean's Non-Traditional Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Organogenesis, University of Michigan Medical School

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Luisa Aring, MS
Visiting Doctoral Student
Biochemistry 
Ruhr University Bochum (Ger)/University of Michigan (US)

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 Junru Pan
 Doctoral Student
​ Nutritional Sciences

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Brittany McKenzie
Master student
​Nutritional Sciences

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Yujie Peng
Master student 
Nutritional Sciences

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Molly Paschall
Master student
​Nutritional Sciences

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Catherine Hong
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan 
Biology

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​Robert Daniels 
Undergraduate, Research Assistant 
University of Michigan
Premed

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