Dr. Chang-Il Hwang is an assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. He received his D.V.M. and M.S. degrees from the Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, and his PhD degree from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA) from August 2012 to June 2018. Since July 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the University of California. The Hwang lab studies the ways in which genetic and epigenetic alterations contribute to pancreatic cancer progression, and exploits epigenetic vulnerabilities in cancer therapeutics. Dr. Hwang has established pancreatic organoid models of human and mouse pancreatic cancer and utilized these models for understanding the epigenetic landscape of disease progression.