Dr. Heesun Shin received her B.Sc. degree in molecular biology and biochemistry at Simon Fraser University (SFU). After completion of her undergraduate degree, she worked at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) for three years as a computational biologist/analyst. She then returned to school to pursue her Ph.D. degree in genomics and bioinformatics at SFU and the GSC where her work focused on using high-throughput sequencing for comparative transcriptome analysis. She completed her Ph.D. degree in 2010 and joined the PROOF Centre shortly after. With over 8 years of experience in the field of genomics and bioinformatics, Dr. Shin has participated as a co-author in various international and local collaborative genomics and transcriptomic publications as well as first author for her Ph.D. work. Her publications in peer-reviewed journals include those such as Science, Genome Research, and BMC Biology.
She received scholarships and awards including NSERC’s Postgraduate Scholarship (Doctoral) and Best Poster Award at BC Cancer Agency Annual Cancer Conference. Dr. Shin is looking forward to using her skills in transcriptome analysis and investigating cutting-edge technologies to take part in PROOF Centre biomarker programs.
