Kyoung-mi Park succesfully defended her PhD thesis, titled “Rapid Induction of Blastoid-Competent Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Their Application to Investigate BAF Complex Function During Early Lineage Specification” on Monday, 13, July 2026.
Kyoung will be leaving the lab shortly and taking up a postdoc position at NIH. Congratulations Dr. Park and good luck in your new endeavors!
Here are a few more pics from her thesis defense:





