Team

Meet the DECODE Team

DECODE (Dissecting Etiology of Cerebellar Origins of Disorders in Early Childhood) is a collaborative initiative uniting experts from Germany and South Korea to advance our understanding of early childhood brain development disorders.

Project Leads

Professor Sohyon Lee
Dr. Sohyon Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), heading the Translational Molecular Phenomics Lab. Her research focuses on cancer biology, human diseases, neuroscience, and systems biology. Before joining KAIST, Dr. Lee was part of the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, where she contributed to high-throughput identification of neuroactive drugs with potential anti-glioblastoma activity.
Dr Naveed Ishaque
Dr. Naveed Ishaque leads the Computational Oncology group at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His work centers on applying computational methods to decipher molecular heterogeneity in omics data related to human diseases. Dr. Ishaque earned his M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from Imperial College London and completed his Ph.D. at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich. He has previously been associated with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.

Join Us

Currently, DECODE is in its formative stages, actively seeking funding to build a dedicated research team. We welcome collaboration opportunities with researchers and institutions interested in contributing to our mission of reducing the impact of early childhood brain development disorders.

For collaboration inquiries or more information, please contact us!