Jessica Yoo Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Stanford. CA

Stanford, CA

During flu season in 2017, we collaborated with community partners to vaccinate thousands of community members

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Through the UVA Center for Global Health, I have partaken in organizing UVA's pilot Global Health Week, which had movie screenings, art exhibits, and guest speakers focusing on major themes in global health (i.e. clean water, mental health, maternal and child health, etc.). As part of the CGH Student Advisory Board, I honed my organizational skills by.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

From lymphatic filariasis, which swells up victims' limbs into elephantine proportions, to hookworm, which slashes the wage-earning potential of children by 40%, the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are debilitating conditions that can be treated for just fifty cents. During my junior year of high school, I brought attention to this cause through giving.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

As a senior in high school, I led my first brigade to Panama in January of 2012. During that trip, I fell in love with Latin America and with the holistic, cooperative mission of Global Brigades. I went on a Global Public Health Brigade as a freshman, and served as President for the following two years, raising enough money to go to Honduras every winter.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

GlobeMed at UVA partners with the Build Your Future Today (BFT) Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In 2014, I served as Co-President and spearheaded our fundraising and recruitment efforts. In my three years of involvement, I have helped my chapter raise over $16,500 to go towards health and nutrition programs for mothers and children in Arak Svay, a rural.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

As part of the 13-member UVA synthetic biology team, I proposed an idea for minicells that we adopted as our official project for the iGEM competition. Anucleoid products of asymmetrical cell division, minicells can be used to deliver chemotherapeutics. By overexpressing the tubulin-analog FtsZ protein in E. coli, we created a gene construct that could.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Investigated the nonstructural viral proteins NS3 and NS5 and the host factor CCT7 as potential drug targets for dengue fever.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate researcher at the Columbus lab (protein biochemistry), International Genetically Engineered.

Education record

Activities and Societies: President and Founder of the Global Health Awareness Club (raised awareness events for NTDs at cultural.