Rate My Professor Hyeryeong Park

Hyeryeong Park is the Lab Manager and Senior Research Support Specialist at the FOXG1 Research Center in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University at Buffalo. In this role, she oversees laboratory operations, including onboarding new researchers, managing lab inspections and compliance, and coordinating with multiple departments and offices across the university. Her efforts ensure that the research team can concentrate on scientific work by handling organizational challenges and supporting the infrastructure necessary for complex experiments. Park is listed on the FOXG1 Research Center's faculty page and serves as the primary contact for postdoctoral associate and research technician positions in Biological Sciences.

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Hyeryeong Park moved to the United States in 2007 with her parents, first settling in Philadelphia before coming to Buffalo to attend the University at Buffalo, where she double-majored in Psychology and Health & Human Services. After completing her undergraduate studies, she worked as a patient navigator in Buffalo, assisting Medicaid patients in accessing healthcare services. This experience in health support led to her position at the FOXG1 Research Center, where she manages critical lab functions such as mouse colony maintenance. Her contributions have been acknowledged in several peer-reviewed publications from the Lee Lab, including 'The patient-specific mouse model with Foxg1 frameshift mutation' (Nature Communications, 2025), 'The postnatal injection of AAV9-FOXG1 rescues corpus callosum defects' (Molecular Therapy Family Advances, 2024), 'AAV-mediated neuronal expression of FOXG1 restores synaptic deficits' (bioRxiv, 2025), and 'The histone demethylase Kdm6b regulates subtype specification' (Nature Communications, 2022). These studies focus on molecular mechanisms and potential therapies for FOXG1 syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder.