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Jina Ko, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Assistant Professor, Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center
  • Assistant Professor, Penn Institute for Immunology

Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine


Contact Information

422 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Email: jina.ko@pennmedicine.upenn.edu


I3H Keywords

  • Allergy
  • Asthma and Other Inflammatory Diseases
  • Autoimmunity

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Education

  • B.S.
    Rice University, 2013
  • Ph.D.
    University of Pennsylvania, 2018

Post-Graduate Training

  • Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Fellow
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2018 - 2020
  • Instructor, NIH NCI K99/R00 Fellow
    Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2021 - 2022

Description of Research Expertise

Medical Diagnostics, Droplet Microfludiics, Biomarker Discovery, Microfabrication

Description of ITMAT Expertise

Next Generation Tools for Medical Diagnostic
Single Extracellular Vesicle Analysis
Biomarker Discovery for Neurological Disorders

Selected Publications

  • Y. Roh*, RT. Morales*, E. Huynh, U. Chintapula, D.E. Reynolds, R.J. Agosto Nieves, D. Oh, A.J. Seiner, J. Lim, C. B. Rodell, J. Ko : Squeezable Hydrogel Microparticles for Single Extracellular Vesicle Protein Profiling Small OCT 2024 Notes: Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue 2407809
  • D. Koo, X. Cheng, S. Udani, D. Zhu, J. Li, B. Hall, N. Tsubamoto, J. Ko, K. Cheng, D. Di Carlo : Optimizing cell therapy by sorting cells with high extracellular vesicle secretion Nature Communications 15 : 4870, JUNE 2024 Notes: Alt Title: Increasing Cell Therapeutic Potential by Selecting Cells with High Extracellular Vesicle Secretion
  • Z. Tang, D.E. Reynolds, C. Lv, D. Zhang, J. Ko, Y. Wang : A Versatile Microchannel Array Device for Portable and Parallel Droplet Generation Small Science 4(5) MAR 2024 Notes: no publication month
  • U. Chintapula, D. Oh, C. Perez, S. Davis, J. Ko : Anti-cancer bioactivity of sweet basil leaf derived extracellular vesicles on pancreatic cancer cells Journal of Extracellular Biology 3(2) : e142, FEB 2024
  • D.E. Reynolds, Y. Sun, X. Wang, P. Vallapureddy, J. Lim, M. Pan, A. Fernadez Del Castillo, J. C. T. Carlson, M. A. Sellmyer, M. Nasrallah, Z. Binder, D. M. O’Rourke, G. Ming, H. Song, J. Ko : Live Organoid Cyclic Imaging Advanced Science 11(14) : 2309289, FEB 2024
  • D.E. Reynolds, J. Lim, Y. Roh, U. Chintapula, RT. Morales, D. Oh, J. Ko : Droplet and Digital Microfluidics: Ideation to Implementation Elsevier 2024 Notes: Book - no publication volume, no, month, page
  • D.E. Reynolds, M. Pan, J. Yang, G. Galanis, Y. Roh, RT. Morales, S.S. Kumar, SJ. Heo, X. Xu, W. Guo, J. Ko : Double Digital Assay for Single Extracellular Vesicle and Single Molecule Detection Advanced Science 10(23) NOV 2023
  • J. Chen, J. Ko, Y. Wang : Single-cell and spatially resolved omics: Advances and Limitations Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 13(8) : 833-835, AUG 2023
  • D.E. Reynolds, G. Galanis, J. Ko : Single Extracellular Vesicle Analysis using Droplet Microfluidics Methods Mol Biol, Springer Nature : 211-220, JULY 2023
  • L. Ou, S. Liu, H. Wang, Y. Guo, L. Guan, L. Shen, R. Luo, D. Elder, A. Huang, G. Karakousis, J. Miura, T. Mitchell, L. Schuchter, R. Amaravadi, A. Flowers, H. Mou, Y. Fan, W. Guo, J. Ko, Q. Chen, B. Tian, M. Herlyn, X. Xu : Patient-Derived Melanoma Organoid Models Facilitate the Assessment of Immunotherapies eBiomedicine 92 JUNE 2023