Overview

Dr. Go studied Biology for undergraduate at Korea University, Seoul, Korea. She joined graduate program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and received a PhD in Molecular Pathology in 2000. She moved to Atlanta, GA in 2001and completed postdoctoral training in Biochemistry at Emory University. She then joined a faculty member in the Department of Medicine in 2009 and became Professor in 2023.

Dr. Go's research career has focused on identifying redox signaling and control mechanisms associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases in response to environmental stressors. Her research aims to understand the redox communication between subcellular compartments that impact critical mechanisms of oxidative stress-associated disease initiation and progression specifically using integrative omics method-based systems biology. This strategy uses multi-omics platform, redox proteomics, metabolomics and transcriptomics to study communications between subcellular compartments that impact oxidative stress-associated cell signaling in pathologic conditions. Using this strategy, her studies are able to identify central hubs and networks of redox-sensitive proteins and metabolites, transcripts, and determine further interaction to pathologic outcome features.

Dr. Go's current research is focused on studying metabolic and mechanistic responses in pulmonary system to environmental and nutritional metal exposures with several sub-aims: 1) mechanistic studies of environmental heavy metals -caused lung inflammation and fibrosis, 2) investigation of cause-effect relationships by clinical metabolomics using complementary experimental metabolomics, and 3) the study of subcellular redox communication.

She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications including original research articles, reviews and book chapters. A complete list of published work can be found in direct URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/young-mi.go kang.1/collections/52000406/public/.

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
• Professor, James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies

Education

Research