Andy Hong

I am a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. I just began this journey (Class of 2008) and I wanted to get some insight into transitional research so I joined Funmi's lab. Prior to joining and coming to UChicago, I went to college at the University of Chicago, spent two years as a management consultant, and the past year as a post-bac fellow at the NIH studying a spindle checkpoint protein, Mad1p, in yeast. In Funmi's lab, I'm trying to determine whether or not individuals in our high risk clinic have a correlation between bilirubin levels, UGT1A1 genotypes, and TA repeats of UGT1A1. This will hopefully help 1) to aid in understanding the toxicity factors related in irinotecan dosage and 2) us use the genotypes & repeats to help predict expected baseline bilirubin levels.