Jina Ko, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Professor, Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact information
422 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Education:
B.S.
Rice University, 2013.
Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
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Description of Research Expertise

Medical Diagnostics, Droplet Microfludiics, Biomarker Discovery, Microfabrication

Selected Publications

RT. Morales, J. Ko: Future of Digital Assays to Resolve Clinical Heterogeneity of Single Extracellular Vesicles. ACS Nano 2022.

D.E. Reynolds, O. Lewallen, G. Galanis, J. Ko.: A Customizable and Low-Cost Ultraviolet Exposure System for Photolithography. Micromachines 2022.

J. Ko, K. Lucas, R. Kohler, E. Halabi, J. C. T. Carlson, R. Weissleder: In Vivo Click Chemistry Enables Multiplexed Intravital Microscopy. Advanced Science 2022.

V. Iyer*, Z. Yang*, J. Ko*, R. Weissleder, D. Issadore: The Future of Microdiagnostics for Clinical Use. Lab on a Chip 2022.

J. Ko, M. Wilkovitsch, J. Oh, E. Bolli, M. J. Pittet, D. B. Sykes, H. Mikula, R. Weissleder, J. C. T. Carlson: Multiplexed Analysis of Living Cells with SAFE Bioorthogonal Cycling. Nature Biotechnology 2022.

J. Ko, Y. Wang, K. Sheng, D. Weitz, R. Weissleder: Sequencing-based protein analysis of single extracellular vesicles (seiSEQ). ACS Nano 15(3): 5631-5638, March 2021.

B. Trombetta, S. Kandigian, R. Kitchen, K. Grauwet, P. Webb, G. Miller, C. Jennings, S. Jain, S. Miller, Y. Kuo, T. Sweeney, T. Gilboa, M. Norman, D. Simmons, C. Ramirez, M. Bedard, C. Fink, J. Ko, E. De León Peralta, G. Watts, E. Gomez-Rivas, V. Davis, R. Barilla, J. Wang, P. Cunin, S. Bates, C. Morrison-Smith, B. Nicholson, E. Wong, L. El-Mufti, M. Kann, A. Bolling, B. Fortin, H. Ventresca, W. Zhou, S. Pardo, M. Kwock, A. Hazra, L. Cheng, R. Ahmad, J. Toombs, R. Larson, H. Pleskow, N. Luo, C. Samaha, U. Pandya, P. De Silva, S. Zhou, Z. Ganhadeiro, S. Yohannes, R. Gay, J. Slavik, S. Mukerji, P. Jarolim, D. Walt, B. Carlyle, L. Ritterhouse, S. Suliman: Evaluation of serological lateral flow assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. BMC Infectious Diseases 2021.

J. Ko, Y. Wang, J. Carlson, A. Marquard, J. Gungabeesoon, A. Charest, D. Weitz, M. Pittet, R. Weissleder: Single Extracellular Vesicle Protein Analysis Using Immuno‐Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification. Advanced Biosystems 4(12), Dec 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1002/adbi.201900307

Z. Yang*, M. LaRiviere*, J. Ko*, T. Christensen, S. S. Yee, J. Till, T. Black, A. Adallah, A. Lin, B. Z. Stanger, D. Issadore, and E. L. Carpenter: A multi-analyte panel consisting of extracellular vesicle miRNAs and mRNAs, cfDNA, and CA19-9 shows utility for diagnosis and staging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 1(26): 3248-3258, Jul 2020.

R. Weissleder, H. Lee, J. Ko, M. Pittet: COVID-19 diagnostics in context. Science Translational Medicine 3(12), Jun 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abc1931.

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