News & Media
April 2026 | Our new toy — Opentrons Flex — has arrived and will accelerate our molecular glue discovery!
March 2026 | Welcome, Ethan (Ph.D. student), to the Yoon Lab for his rotation!
March 2026 | Allison Institute faculty chalk talk — Hojong shared a
“crazy” idea on tackling T cell exhaustion.
February 2026 | New lab crisis: our FIRST large culture took a dive off the shaker… a rite of passage.
February 2026 | Kicking off 2026 with our first lab lunch.
January 2026 | Welcome, Jose (Ph.D. student), to the Yoon Lab for his rotation!
January 2026 | Our first purification — did it work…?
January 2026 | The Yoon Lab is growing! We are excited to welcome Rishi and Dacheng to the lab.
October 2025 | Hojong presented his recent, new molecular glue discovery at the Allison Institute Symposium.
September 2025 | New lab toys in action! Plenty more to set up.
September 2025 | Welcome Laine & Sehee to the lab!
August 2025 | First purification is ongoing — our chemistry lab is now up and running!
July 2025 | Early days of the new lab: 90% boxes, 10% science…for now.
July 2025 | Welcome Krishna to the lab!
February 2025 | Hojong’s R00 grant was officially funded by the National Cancer Institute.
February 2025 | The Yoon Lab officially opens its doors.
Our lab is located on the third floor of the MD Anderson South Campus Research Building 4 (SCRB4), one of the newest buildings in the Texas Medical Center area. We're situated among other Experimental Therapeutics and Cancer Biology faculty, which makes for easy collaboration!
February 2025 | Hojong was appointed as an Assistant Member of the James P. Allison Institute to advance cancer chemical immunology
The James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson is a visionary research and innovation hub created to conduct groundbreaking science that integrates immunobiology across all disciplines. With exceptional discovery, translational and clinical research, the Allison Institute will rapidly advance breakthroughs into novel and synergetic therapies that bring the benefits of immunotherapy to all patients.
January 2025 | Hojong received UT System Rising STARs Award
Hojong received the UT System Rising STARs Award in the amount of $250,000. The Faculty STARs Program has evolved and expanded since its initial proposal, approved by The University of Texas System Board of Regents in August 2004. Its goal is to support the purchase of state-of-the-art research equipment and facilitate essential laboratory renovations, encouraging faculty members to conduct their research at UT institutions.
August 2024 | CPRIT Awarded a $2M Recruitment Grant to Hojong
Texans voted in 2007 to create the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and to invest $3 billion in the state’s unprecedented fight against cancer. CPRIT is now a $6 billion, 20-year initiative — the largest state cancer research investment in the history of the United States.
On August 21, 2024, CPRIT approved $60.6 million in grants to advance the state’s fight against cancer. The grants fund a wide array of academic research projects, including CPRIT Scholar recruitment awards, innovative core facilities and developmental research focusing on promising new insights into the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. Among them, Hojong was awarded $2,000,000 (over five years) for his recruitment to MD Anderson Cancer Center.