Education

• 2007-2011

  Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, South Korea

• 2002-2004

  M.S. in Computer Science, Yonsei University, South Korea

• 1998-2002

  B.S. in Computer Science, Yonsei University, South Korea

Professional Experience

• 2016-2020

  Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, South Korea

• 2012-2015

  Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

• 2004-2012

  Research Scientist, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute and Samsung Medical Center, South Korea

Selected Publications

• 2021 Namkoong H, et al. (2021)

  Genome-wide association study in patients with pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease. Eur Respir J 902269.

• Shin JG, et al. (2021)

  GWAS Analysis of 17,019 Korean Women Identifies the Variants Associated with Facial Pigmented Spots. J Invest Dermatol 141(3), 555-62.

• 2020 Duffy A, et al. (2020)

  Tissue-specific genetic features inform prediction of drug side effects in clinical trials. Sci Adv 6(37):eabb6242.

• Lee YC, et al. (2020)

  Subjective cognitive decline and subsequent dementia: a nationwide cohort study of 579,710 people aged 66 years in South Korea. Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 12(1), 1-13.

• 2019 Jordan DM, et al. (2019)

  No causal effects of serum urate levels on the risk of chronic kidney disease: A Mendelian randomization study. PloS Medicine 16(1):e1002725.

• 2018 *Lee YC, *Jung SH, #Won HH (2018).

  WonDerM: Skin lesion classification with fine-tuned neural networks. arXiv:1808.03426.

• 2017 Saleheen D, et al. (2017)

  Human knockouts and phenotypic analysis. Nature 544(7649), 235-9.

• *Khera AV, *Won HH, et al. (2017)

  Association of rare and common variation in the lipoprotein lipase gene with coronary artery disease. Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA 317(9), 937-46.

• Nomura A, Won HH, et al. (2017)

  Protein-truncating variants at the cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene and risk for coronary heart disease. Circulation Research 121(1), 81-8.

• 2016 Emdin CA, et al. (2016)

  Phenotypic characterization of genetically lowered human lipoprotein(a) levels. Journal of the American college of cardiology JACC 68(25), 2761-72.

• Exome Aggregation Consortium (2016).

  Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. Nature 36(7616), 285-91.

• *Khera AV, *Won HH, *Peloso GM, et al. (2016).

  Diagnostic yield and clinical utility of sequencing familial hypercholesterolemia genes in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia. Journal of the American college of cardiology JACC 67(22), 2578-89.

• Stitziel NO, et al. (2016)

  Coding variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the risk of coronary disease. New England journal of medicine NEJM 374(12), 1134-44.

• 2015 Won HH, et al. (2015).

  Disproportionate contributions of select genomic compartments and cell types to genetic risk for coronary artery disease. PloS genetics doi:10.1371 journal.pgen.1005622.

• *Nikpay M, *Goel A, *Won HH, et al. (2015).

  A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based GWAS meta-analysis of coronary artery disease. Nature genetics 47(10), 1121-30.

• *Kim J, *Won HH, et al. (2015).

  Breakpoint mapping by whole genome sequencing identifies PTH2R gene disruption in a patient with midline craniosynostosis and a de novo balanced chromosomal rearrangement. Journal of medical genetics 52(10), 706-9. (Featured on the Cover page)

• *Do R, *Stitziel NO, *Won HH, et al. (2015).

  Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction. Nature 518, 102-106.

• 2014 *Stitziel NO, *Won HH, et al. (2014).

  Inactivating mutations in NPC1L1 and protection from coronary heart disease. New England journal of medicine NEJM 371(22), 2072-2082.

• *Tada H, *Won HH, et al. (2014).

  Multiple associated variants increase the heritability explained for plasma lipids and coronary artery disease. Circulation: cardiovascular genetics 7(5), 583-587.

Patents

• 2014

  Kim DK, Kim JW, Myung WJ, Won HH. SUICIDE PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE USING SOCIAL DATA. Korean Patent (#1013855620000)

• 2012

  Kim JW, Kim DH, Lee ST, Won HH. METHOD FOR PREDICTING A RISK OF CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, AND DIAGNOSIS KIT USING SAME. WO (#2012150818)

• 2011

  Kim JW, Kim DH, Lee ST, Won HH. Method for predicting chronic myeloid leukemia risk and kit for diagnosing chronic myeloid leukemia risk thereof. Korean Patent application (#10-2011-0041690)

Awards and Honors

• 2018

  SAIHST ARROW Research Award

• 2015-2016

  American Heart Association: Founders Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellowship, Top 1% Rank

• 2015

  NEBS Alumni in Korea Research Fellow Award

• 2015

  Trainee Winner for the Best Paper, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

• 2008-2011

  Encouraging Prize from Samsung Biomedical Research Institute Research Award

• 2007-2010

  General Scholarship of KAIST from Samsung Biomedical Research Institute

• 2003

  IEEE Neural Networks Society 2003 Student Travel Grant