Daeseung Lee
Chief Executive Officer
Physician-scientist who left clinical practice to bring spatial biology into oncology drug discovery.
10 articles
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Engineering-12 min read
Designing VGL — a multimodal foundation model for cancer cell biology
How we built Vision-Gene-Language: combining histopathology images, gene expression, and clinical text into one model that classifies tumor cells at scale.
HCHongyoon Choi-Apr 22, 2026
AI / ML-9 min read
Benchmarking spatial transcriptomics models — what we measure, and why
Most public benchmarks for spatial transcriptomics over-index on a few well-curated tissues. We share the evaluation suite Portrai uses internally to keep VGL and PortraiTME™ honest.
HCHongyoon Choi-Apr 15, 2026
Research Journal-18 min read
Engineering a precision-glycosylated clickable albumin nanoplatform
How Portrai's team built a glyco-clickable HSA nanoplatform for tumor-microenvironment targeting, validated dual-modality with PET imaging + spatial transcriptomics.
HIHyung-Jun Im-Apr 14, 2026
Drug Discovery-14 min read
Mapping drug distribution at single-cell resolution
PortraiDRUG turns spatial transcriptomics into a quantitative readout of where a payload actually lands. Here's why we think this is the missing piece for ADC and RPT design.
KNKwonjoong Na-Apr 4, 2026
Drug Discovery-8 min read
Target-based understanding of the termination of the AMG 794 clinical trial — a deep dive with spatial transcriptomics
Why did AMG 794 stop, and what does spatial transcriptomics tell us about the target landscape? A deep dive into the clinical trial termination through the lens of tissue-level biology.
DLDaeseung Lee-Dec 1, 2025
Drug Discovery-9 min read
Unlocking the full potential of bispecific antibodies with PortraiTARGET™ POR-PBPK
PortraiTARGET™ POR-PBPK combines spatial transcriptomics with physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling to predict tissue-level bispecific antibody exposure — up to 4.5× over monospecifics in the same tumor context.
DLDaeseung Lee-Jun 1, 2025
Research Journal-5 min read
AACR 2025 — Portrai abstracts
Eleven posters spanning bispecific ADC target pairs, image-based ST platform comparisons, in-silico ADC modeling, CAF-targeting antibodies, CELLama, and AI lymphocyte identification in NSCLC.
DLDaeseung Lee-Apr 8, 2025
Spatial Biology-5 min read
Weekly data spotlight — cost-effective single-cell analysis through spatial transcriptomics
STAMP profiles individual cells via image-based spatial transcriptomics — ~50× cheaper per cell than scRNA-seq, with rare-cell detection at 1:100,000 dilutions and direct visual validation.
DLDaeseung Lee-Oct 19, 2024
Research Journal-9 min read
Spatial transcriptomics reveals spatially diverse cancer-associated fibroblasts in lung squamous cell carcinoma linked to tumor progression
Image-based spatial transcriptomics across 33 LUSC patients shows CAF–tumor epithelium spatial interactions correlate with tumor size, metabolic activity, and recurrence-free survival — with glycolysis-upregulated fibroblast regions in barcode ST.
DLDaeseung Lee-Aug 1, 2024
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Hyung-Jun Im
Chief Scientific Officer
Nuclear medicine specialist linking imaging biomarkers to next-generation radiopharmaceuticals.
1 articles
Kwonjoong Na
Chief Medical Officer
Translates platform insights into IND-enabling decisions across oncology programs.
1 articles
Taesoo Shin
Senior Research Scientist
Spatial transcriptomics methodology lead. Builds Portrai's analysis pipelines that turn raw spot-level data into publishable cell-composition maps.
0 articles
Hongyoon Choi
Chief Technology Officer
Builds the algorithms that turn spatial transcriptomics into actionable target intelligence.
2 articles