Jin Woo Oh

• Contributing member, IGVF, 2022–2024.
• Contributing member, ENCODE, 2018–2024.

• Johns Hopkins Medicine Young Investigator Award (English)
• BRIC Hanbitsa Interview (Korean)

Doctoral Thesis

Selected Publications

1. •• Nature Communications · 2024
   Jin Woo Oh & Michael A Beer. "Gapped-kmer sequence modeling robustly identifies regulatory vocabularies and distal enhancers conserved between evolutionarily distant mammals." Nature Communications (2024)
   — Mathematical formulation and original algorithm development; modeling the dynamics of regulatory evolution
2. Nature Methods · 2024
   Jin Woo Oh*, David Yao*, Josh Tycko*, Lexi R Bounds*, Sager J Gosai*, Lazaros Lataniotis*, Ava Mackay-Smith, Benjamin R Doughty, Idan Gabdank, Henri Schmidt, Tania Guerrero-Altamirano, Keith Siklenka, Katherine Guo, Alexander D. White, Ingrid Youngworth, Kalina Andreeva, Xingjie Ren, Alejandro Barrera, Yunhai Luo, Galip Gürkan Yardımcı, Ryan Tewhey, Anshul Kundaje, William J Greenleaf, Pardis C Sabeti, Christina Leslie, Yuri Pritykin, Jill E Moore, Michael A Beer, Charles Gersbach, Timothy E Reddy, Yin Shen, Jesse M Engreitz, Michael C Bassik, Steven K Reilly. "Multicenter integrated analysis of noncoding CRISPRi screens." Nature Methods (2024)
   — Lead computational author (co-first, equal contribution); collaboration with the ENCODE functional characterization centers
3. •• Nature Genetics · 2023
   Renhe Luo, Jielin Yan, Jin Woo Oh, Wang Xi, Dustin Shigaki, Wilfred Wong, Hyein S Cho, Dylan Murphy, Ronald Cutler, Bess P Rosen, Julian Pulecio, Dapeng Yang, Rachel A Glenn, Tingxu Chen, Qing V Li, Thomas Vierbuchen, Simone Sidoli, Effie Apostolou, Danwei Huangfu, Michael A Beer. "Dynamic network-guided CRISPRi screen identifies CTCF-loop-constrained nonlinear enhancer gene regulatory activity during cell state transitions." Nature Genetics (2023)
   — Computational modeling and simulation; experimental collaboration with MSK (Luo and Yan, Huangfu Lab)
4. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer · 2025
   Yeong Hak Bang*, Geun-Ho Park*, Jin Woo Oh*, Soohyun Hwang, Jun-Gi Jeong, Boram Lee, Cheol Yong Joe, Hyemin Kim, Jinyong Kim, Sehhoon Park, Hyun Ae Jung, Jong-Mu Sun, Jin Seok Ahn, Myung-Ju Ahn, Yoon-La Choi, Chang Ho Ahn, Siraj M. Ali, Chan-Young Ock, Se-Hoon Lee. "Artificial intelligence-powered spatial analysis of tumor microenvironment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer with acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor." Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2025)
   — Co-first author (equal contribution); computational biomarker modeling; clinical collaboration with Samsung Medical Center (Bang and Park)

Full Publications

Johns Hopkins (2018–2024)

1. •• Jin Woo Oh & Michael A Beer. "Gapped-kmer sequence modeling robustly identifies regulatory vocabularies and distal enhancers conserved between evolutionarily distant mammals." Nature Communications (2024)
   Mathematical formulation and original algorithm development; modeling the dynamics of regulatory evolution
2. Jin Woo Oh*, David Yao*, Josh Tycko*, Lexi R Bounds*, Sager J Gosai*, Lazaros Lataniotis*, Ava Mackay-Smith, Benjamin R Doughty, Idan Gabdank, Henri Schmidt, Tania Guerrero-Altamirano, Keith Siklenka, Katherine Guo, Alexander D. White, Ingrid Youngworth, Kalina Andreeva, Xingjie Ren, Alejandro Barrera, Yunhai Luo, Galip Gürkan Yardımcı, Ryan Tewhey, Anshul Kundaje, William J Greenleaf, Pardis C Sabeti, Christina Leslie, Yuri Pritykin, Jill E Moore, Michael A Beer, Charles Gersbach, Timothy E Reddy, Yin Shen, Jesse M Engreitz, Michael C Bassik, Steven K Reilly. "Multicenter integrated analysis of noncoding CRISPRi screens." Nature Methods (2024)
   Lead computational author (co-first, equal contribution); collaboration with the ENCODE functional characterization centers
3. •• Renhe Luo, Jielin Yan, Jin Woo Oh, Wang Xi, Dustin Shigaki, Wilfred Wong, Hyein S Cho, Dylan Murphy, Ronald Cutler, Bess P Rosen, Julian Pulecio, Dapeng Yang, Rachel A Glenn, Tingxu Chen, Qing V Li, Thomas Vierbuchen, Simone Sidoli, Effie Apostolou, Danwei Huangfu, Michael A Beer. "Dynamic network-guided CRISPRi screen identifies CTCF-loop-constrained nonlinear enhancer gene regulatory activity during cell state transitions." Nature Genetics (2023)
   Computational modeling and simulation; experimental collaboration with MSK (Luo and Yan, Huangfu Lab)
4. IGVF Consortium. "Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function." Nature (2024)
   Contributing member, IGVF Network Projects group; gene regulatory networks in early human lineage decisions
5. The ENCODE Project Consortium. "The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements." bioRxiv (2026) · Under review
   Contributing member, Johns Hopkins Computational Analysis Center
6. Jin Woo Oh. "Enhanced Algorithms to detect and characterize conserved regulatory sequences." Johns Hopkins University (2024)

Lunit (2024–2026)

7. Yeong Hak Bang*, Geun-Ho Park*, Jin Woo Oh*, Soohyun Hwang, Jun-Gi Jeong, Boram Lee, Cheol Yong Joe, Hyemin Kim, Jinyong Kim, Sehhoon Park, Hyun Ae Jung, Jong-Mu Sun, Jin Seok Ahn, Myung-Ju Ahn, Yoon-La Choi, Chang Ho Ahn, Siraj M. Ali, Chan-Young Ock, Se-Hoon Lee. "Artificial intelligence-powered spatial analysis of tumor microenvironment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer with acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor." Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2025)
   Co-first author (equal contribution); computational biomarker modeling; clinical collaboration with Samsung Medical Center (Bang and Park)
8. Jozef P. Bossowski, Ray Pillai, John Kilian, Angela Wong Lau, Mari Nakamura, Ali Rashidfarrokhi, Yuan Hao, Ruxuan Li, Katherine Wu, Takamitsu Hattori, Eliezra Glasser, Akiko Koide, Lidong Wang, Andre L. Moreira, Cristina Hajdu, Sahith Rajalingam, Sarah E. LeBoeuf, Hortense Le, Seungeun Lee, Jin Woo Oh, Cheolyong Joe, Hyemin Kim, Chan-Young Ock, Se-Hoon Lee, Hao Wang, Angana A. H. Patel, Volkan I. Sayin, Aristotelis Tsirigos, Kwok-Kin Wong, Sergei B. Koralov, Mario Pende, Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera, Diane M. Simeone, Ioannis K. Zervantonakis, Shohei Koide & Thales Papagiannakopoulos. "The integrated stress response promotes immune evasion through lipocalin 2." Nature (2026)
   Computational biomarker analysis for validation in human samples
9. Hyunchul Kim, Jinhyung Heo, Soo Ick Cho, Beodeul Kang, Jung Sun Kim, Chan Kim, Chang Il Kwon, Min Je Sung, Seok-Pyo Shin, Seok Jeong Yang, Incheon Kang, Sung Hwan Lee, Chansik An, Seungeun Lee, Jin Woo Oh, Hee Yeon Kay, Jiwon Shin, Taebum Lee, Sanghoon Song, Sukjun Kim, Heon Song, Sergio Pereira, Gwangil Kim, Hong Jae Chon. "Pathologist-Artificial Intelligence Concordance in HER2 Interpretation for Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer: Intraobserver, Interobserver, and Human-Artificial Intelligence Variability." Laboratory Investigation (2025)
   As part of the study, invented computational biomarker algorithm for pathology AI (patent pending)
10. Gwangil Kim, Beodeul Kang, Jung Yong Hong, Haeyoun Kang, Jung Sun Kim, Sohyun Hwang, Sung Hwan Lee, Sang Hoon Jung, Chansik An, Won Suk Lee, Chiyoon Oum, Gahee Park, Mingu Kang, Yoojoo Lim, Jin Woo Oh, Siraj M. Ali, Chan-Young Ock, Chan Kim, Ho Yeong Lim, Hong Jae Chon. "Differential implications of tumor endothelial cell and lymphocyte densities in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with immunotherapy." npj Precision Oncology (2025)
    Cross-validated pathology AI and spatial transcriptomics findings in HCC

1. Jin Woo Oh, Sanghoon Song, Soohyun Hwang, Mingu Kang, Jinhee Lee, Sergio Pereira, Hyunsu Kim, Sehhoon Park, Junhun Cho, Se-Hoon Lee, Han-Sin Jeong, Chang Ho Ahn, Siraj M Ali, Chan-Young Ock, Myung-Ju Ahn. "A novel single-cell level approach integrating artificial intelligence (AI)–powered histomorphology labeling and spatial transcriptomics enables biomarker identification of treatment resistance in salivary gland cancer (SGC)." Proceedings of the AACR (2025)
2. Hyunsu Kim, Sehhoon Park, Jin Woo Oh, Soohyun Hwang, Jinyoung Kim, Eun-hye Kim, Nayeon Choi, Junhun Cho, Hyun-Ae Jung, Dongryul Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Yong Chan Ahn, Han-Sin Jeong, Chang Ho Ahn, Chan-Young Ock, Myung-Ju Ahn. "Exploratory analysis of tumor microenvironment using scRNA, scTCR, and spatial transcriptomics in salivary gland cancer with surgical sample after neoadjuvant immuno-chemotherapy." Proceedings of the AACR (2025)
3. Seungeun Lee, Jin Woo Oh, Soohyun Hwang, Jeanne Shen, Sehhoon Park, Hyojin Kim, Young Kwang Chae, Se-Hoon Lee, Yoon-La Choi, Jin-haeng Chung, Jaewoong Shin, Heon Song, Aaron Valero Puche, Donggeun Yoo, Taebum Lee, Chiyoon Oum, Jeongmi Kim, Siraj M Ali, Chan-Young Ock. "Deep learning–powered H&E whole-slide image analysis of endothelial cells to characterize tumor vascular environment and correlate treatment outcome to immunotherapy." Journal of Clinical Oncology (2025)

Johns Hopkins (2018–2024)

• "CRISPR-screens and Algorithms for Functional Characterization of Enhancers." Young Investigator's Day, Johns Hopkins University, 2024.
• "Functional characterization of the mammalian genome." ASHG, 2023.
• "Gapped-kmer based machine learning and sequence alignment identify conserved regulatory vocabularies and enhancers in evolutionarily distant mammals." IGVF Consortium Meeting, 2022.
• "Identifying subsets of cell-specific regulatory sequence features from heterogeneous tissue-specific chromatin state data using predictive gapped k-mer features." Cold Spring Harbor Lab – Biology of Genomes, 2019.
• "Identifying subsets of cell-specific regulatory sequence features from heterogeneous tissue-specific chromatin state data using predictive gapped k-mer features." ENCODE Consortium Meeting, 2019.

Lunit (2024–2026)

• "A novel single-cell level approach integrating AI–powered histomorphology labeling and spatial transcriptomics enables biomarker identification of treatment resistance in salivary gland cancer (SGC)." AACR, 2025.

• "Decoding regulatory evolution with gapped-kmer sequence modeling and alignment." KAIST seminar, 2026.
• "Decoding Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics." KAIST seminar, 2026.
• "Multi-center integrative analysis of non-coding CRISPR screens." ENCODE Consortium Meeting, 2022.
• "Sequence alignment using gapped-kmer features identifies conserved orthologous mammalian enhancers with high precision." ENCODE Consortium Meeting, 2021.