PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

• 09/2025 – Present

Assistant Professor
Hanyang University
Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering Seoul, Korea

• 06/2023 – 08/2025

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Advisor: Ralph Weissleder, M.D., Ph.D.

• 09/2022 – 05/2023            

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Advisor: Dong Yun Lee, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, Hanyang University

03/2016 – 08/2022
Advisor: Dong Yun Lee, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Development of orally absorbable gold nanoparticles for targeted phototherapy to brain tumor

•  B.S., Department of Bioengineering, Hanyang University
  03/2012 – 02/2016 
  Cum Laude

RESEARCH GRANT

• 2025 - 2026

MGH ECOR Fund for Medical Discovery (FMD) Fundamental Research Fellowship Award. ($77,000/year) “Fluorinated ribonucleocarbohydrate (RNC) nanoparticles allow ultraefficient mRNA delivery and protein expression in tumor-associated myeloid cells”

• 2024 - 2025

Sejong science Overseas fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea,
(70,000,000 KRW/year) “Non-lipid nanovaccine vector with dendritic cell tropism and stimulation”

• 2023 - 2024

Biomedical Global Talent Nurturing Program of KHIDI(HI19C0753),
(110,000,000 KRW/year), Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) 

• 2022 - 2023

Postdoctoral domestic training project, National Research Foundation of Korea, (60,000,000 KRW/year) “Development of sonodynamic-responsive immuno-nanotherapeutic for brain tumor treatment”