Woojung Shin, Ph.D.
신우정
Assistant Professor
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering Biology (co-affiliation)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
APPOINTMENTS
Mar 2023 -
KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering
Assistant Professor
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisors: James J. Collins, PhD, Donald E. Ingber, MD, PhD
Aug 2020 – Feb 2021
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Hyun Jung Kim, PhD
EDUCATION
Aug 2016 – Aug 2020
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Hyun Jung Kim, PhD
Mar 2014 – Aug 2015
Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
MS in Chemical Engineering (Early graduation in 1.5 years)
Advisors: Soong Ho Um, PhD and Yong Taik Lim, PhD
Mar 2010 – Feb 2014
Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
BS in Chemical Engineering
Honors and Awards
2021 Trainee Scholarships, Keystone Symposia: Synthetic Biology: At the Crossroads of Genetic Engineering and Human Therapeutics
2020 Trainee Scholarships, Keystone Symposia: Harnessing the Microbiome for Disease Prevention and Therapy
2020 Mogam Science Scholarship Foundation Award, Republic of Korea
2020 Trainee Award for Registration Fee Waiver, EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme, EMBO|EMBL Symposium
2019 – 2023 NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award
2019 Pre-doctoral TMC Biomedical Faculty Award, 2019 Korean-American Bio-Medical Symposium
2019 Best Paper Award, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Austin Chapter
2019 – 2020 Biomedical Science Scholarship, Asan Foundation
2018 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Scholarship, Apr 8, 2018
2016 – 2018 Graduate Fellowship, The International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER)
2016 – 2017 George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin, TX, USA
2016 Best Paper Award I, 2016 The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Annual Meeting
2016 Best Paper Award II, 2016 The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Annual Meeting
2015 Brain Korea 21+ Scholarship and Research Assistantship, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
2014 Brain Korea 21+ Scholarship and Research Assistantship, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea