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
- Autoimmunity
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Education
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B.S.
Rice University, 2013 -
Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2018
Post-Graduate Training
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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
- U. Chintapula, S. Liu, A. Fernandez Del Castillo, J. Lim, Y. Roh, X. Zhang, RT. Morales, M. Sellmyer, X. Xu, J. Ko : Droplet Squeeze Microfluidic Platform for Generating Extracellular Vesicle Hybrids for Drug Delivery Small 2025
- D.E. Reynolds*, Y. Roh*, U. Chintapula, E. Huynh, P. Vallapureddy, H. H. Tran, D. Lee, M. G. Allen, X. Xu, J. Ko. : Vertically Aligned Nanowires for Longitudinal Intracellular Sampling ACS Nano 2025
- J. Lim, D. Oh, M. Cheng, U. Chintapula, S. Liu, D. E. Reynolds, X. Zhang, X. Xu, J. Ko. : Enhancing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Generation via Microfluidic Mechanoporation and Lipid Nanoparticles Small 2025
- D.E. Reynolds, Y. Roh, D. Oh, P. Vallapureddy, J. Ko. : Temporal and Spatial Omic Technologies for 4D Profiling Nature Methods 2025
- 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