Sunhee Hwang, PhD

Scientist 4 at Genentech

Speaker

Dr. Hwang is a Scientist 4 at Genentech in the Peptide Therapeutics team under the Early Discovery Biochemistry department. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University, where she studied and investigated epigenetic protein-protein interactions, and completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University, leading and developing small molecules for engineering protein dynamics. Since joining Genentech in 2019, she has investigated various signaling pathways involved in disease pathogenesis using peptides as a tool. She currently focuses on the identification and development of disulfide-constrained peptides (DCPs) using phage-display technology, supporting pipeline projects at Genentech, and the bioproduction of DCPs using the E. coli system to support DCP research.