Weill Cornell Medical Center
Dr. Rhee’s lab seeks to apply metabolomic technologies to elucidate the intracellular biochemistry of Mtb and its response to perturbation by host relevant stresses and antimycobacterial compounds.
Kyu Rhee
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical School, Manhattan
Dr. Rhee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). Dr. Rhee’s research career has centered on pioneering the development and application of mass spectrometry-based analytical methods to conduct biologically unbiased, systems level biochemical studies. The Rhee lab has pioneered the use of mass spectrometry-based metabolomic technologies to study the biology of Mtb and the action of drugs for tuberculosis (TB). This work has helped to provide a systems-level understanding of the biochemistry of adaptation by Mtb and the mechanisms of antimycobacterial compounds. From a broader perspective, this work and its approaches have helped enable the field of metabolomics to transform biochemistry into a systems level discipline.
Dr. Rhee is the Co-Lead Investigator for Project 2 – Immune Determinants of the Course of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and Disease