• 2025

• Dynamic Peripheral T-Cell Analysis Identifies On-Treatment Prognostic Biomarkers of Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Hepatocellular Carcinoma LIVER CANCER

  The PNPLA3 I148M variant is associated with immune cell infiltaration and advanced fibrosis in MASLD: a prospective gentoype-phenotype study JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

• 2024

• Intrahepatic immunoglobulin a complex induces polarization of cancer-associated fibroblasts to matrix phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma HEPATOLOGY

  Expansion of effector regulatory T cells in steroid responders of severe alcohol-associated hepatitis LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

  Chitinase 1: a novel therapeutic target in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY

  Prognostic significance of combined PD-L1 expression in malignant and infiltrating cells in hepatocellular carcinoma treated with atezolizumab and bevacizumab FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY

  Chronic Hepatitis B Genotype C Mouse Model with Persistent Covalently Closed Circular DNA VIRUSES-BASEL

• 2023

• Intrahepatic infiltration of activated CD8+ T cells and mononuclear phagocyte is associated with idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY

• 2022

• Intrahepatic inflammatory IgA + PD-L1 high monocytes in hepatocellular carcinoma development and immunotherapy JOURNAL FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER

  Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome with thrombotic thrombocytopenia after BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination LIVER INTERNATIONAL

  Crosstalk between tumor-associated macrophages and neighboring cells in hepatocellular carcinoma CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR HEPATOLOGY

  Immune-mediated liver injury represented as overlap syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
  JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

  Multiplexed Digital Spatial Protein Profiling Reveals Distinct Phenotypes of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Livers with Advanced Fibrosis CELLS

  MiR-23b-3p suppresses epithelial-mesenchymal transition, migration, and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by targeting c-MET HELIYON

  Tenofovir alafenamide alleviates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in mice by blocking the phosphorylation of AKT in intrahepatic mononuclear phagocytes BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY

• 2021

• Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing of Plasma Cell-Free DNA in Korean Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma ANNALS OF LABORATORY MEDICINE

• 2020

• EpCAM-high liver cancer stem cells resist natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity by upregulating CEACAM1 JOURNAL FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER

  IFNL3-adjuvanted HCV DNA vaccine reduces regulatory T cell frequency and increases virus-specific T cell responses JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

  microRNA-99a Restricts Replication of Hepatitis C Virus by Targeting mTOR and De Novo Lipogenesis VIRUSES-BASEL

  Infiltration of T Cells and Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1-expressing Macrophages as a Potential Predictor of Lenvatinib Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma 대한간암학회지(JOURNAL OF LIVER CANCER)

• 2019

• Ex vivo Detection and Characterization of Hepatitis B Virus-Specific CD8(+) T Cells in Patients Considered Immune Tolerant FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY

• 2017

• IFN-lambda 4 potently blocks IFN-alpha signalling by ISG15 and USP18 in hepatitis C virus infection SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

• 2016

• Immune responses and immunopathology in acute and chronic viral hepatitis nature reviews immunoogy

• 2015

• Roles of unphosphorylated ISGF3 in HCV infection and interferon responsiveness PNAS

• 2014

• Hepatitis C virus entry is impaired by claudin-1 downregulation in diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1-deficient cells journal of virology

• 2011

• Frequency of Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIRs) in Korean Patients with Chronic HCV Infection JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE