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Jason Paik, PhD

Dr. Jason Paik is currently in his third year of medical school training in the UAB MSTP. Dr. Paik received his PhD under the mentorship of Weei-Chin Lin, M.D., Ph.D., investigating novel regulatory methods of E2F mediated apoptosis. Dr. Paik completed his undergraduate training at Washington University before moving to Birmingham to enroll in the UAB MSTP. Dr. Paik was awarded multiple awards and honors during his graduate training, including a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship, Trainee Research and Medical Student Research Awards from the American Society of Hematology, the Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student from the UAB Department of Medicine, and a Research Award in Cancer at the UAB Medical Student Research Day. Dr. Paik also investigates trends in MSTP student postgraduate choices, recently reporting his findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Paik JC, Howard G, Lorenz RG. Postgraduate choices of graduates from medical scientist training programs, 2004-2008. JAMA. 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1271-3.).