Justin Hwang, PhD

Justin Hwang received his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University in chemical engineering. He obtained his PhD degree in biochemistry in studying critical regulators of cell differentiation, survival and tumorigenesis. In 2020, he completed his post-doctoral training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. At the University of Minnesota and at the Masonic Cancer Center, his laboratory leads research efforts to house and interpret clinical-grade diagnostic data from real-world patients and clinical trials of cancer patients. Dr. Hwang and his lab investigates cancer genomics to identify precision targets and biomarkers. He and his team are driven by an optimism that this research will lead to promising treatment options for cancer patients who would have otherwise exhausted all their options.