Principal Investigator

E-mail: kskang@kist.re.kr,              Tel: +82-33-650-3657,            Fax:+82-33-650-3679

Address: 679 Saimdang-ro, Gangneung, Gangwon-do 25451, KIST Gangneung Institute of Natural Products, Republic of Korea

ORCID ID          https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3846-7936 

Education

Feb. 2012   Ph.D. in Agricultural Biotechnology (Applied Life Chemistry Major), College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University

Feb. 2004   M.S. in Agricultural Biotechnology (Applied Life Chemistry Major), College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University

Feb. 2002   B.S. in Applied Biology and Chemistry (Agricultural Chemistry Major), Summa Cum Laude, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University

Professional Experiences

May 2025 – present,         Head, Center for Natural Product Systems Biology, KIST, South Korea

Mar. 2020 – present,         Principal Research Scientist, KIST, South Korea

Mar. 2022 – present,         Professor, KIST School (full time), University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Mar. 2023 – present, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Convergence Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, South Korea

                                                        YM-KIST Collaboration Program, Representative Professor (YM-KIST 학연특화 프로그램, 원주의과대학 연계 KIST 대표 교수)

Jun. 2006 – Feb. 2020,    Research scientist / Senior Research Scientist, KIST, South Korea

Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2022,    Associate Professor, KIST School (full time), University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Sep. 2015 – Aug. 2018,    Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry Major, University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Feb. 2014 – Mar. 2015,    Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Switzerland

Apr. 2004 – Feb. 2009,    Technical Research Personnel for Military Service, South Korea

Awards

Dec. 2024    2024 UST Excellence in Lecturing Award , University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Sep. 2024   Gangwon Science and Technology Award (강원과학기술대상, 바이오헬스), South Korea

Nov. 2020   Top 100 Research & Development Award (2020 국가연구개발 우수성과 100선 선정), South Korea

                          'Development of gut health promoting agents using gut biomimetic system (장 생체 모사시스템에 기반한 장 건강 소재 개발, 융합기술)'

May 2018   KIST’s “Persons of the Month” (이달의 KIST인상), KIST, South Korea 

Jun. 2017    Best Reviewer for Applied Biological Chemistry , International Symposium and Annual Meeting of the KSABC, South Korea

Apr. 2012    Bioactive RIS Travel award, Experimental Biology 2012 (San Diego, CA), American Society for Nutrition, USA

May 2010    Best Research Award, Annual Meeting of Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, South Korea

Apr. 2009    Best Poster Award, Annual Meeting of The Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry, South Korea

Jul. 2001     The Daesan Agriculture Foundation Scholarship (대산농촌재단, 제8기), South Korea

Scholarly Activity

Feb. 2006 – present,        Council Member, The Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry

        2021~22, Conference Organizing Committee (학회운영위원); 2025, Secretary-General (총무간사)

Jan. 2025 – present,         Executive Editor, Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Apr. 2020 – present,         Editorial Board Member,  Biomedicines

Jan. 2016 – present,         Member, C. elegans subcommittee, The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

Jan. 2025 - present,       Member, The Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM)

[Journal Reviewer]

Aging Cell

Applied Biological Chemistry

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine

Biochemical Pharmacology

Biomaterials

Biomedical Research

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Biotechnology Letters

BMB reports

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Communications Biology

Environmental Pollution

Food Bioscience

Food Chemistry

International Immunopharmacology

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Journal of Food Science

Journal of Ginseng Research

Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

Journal of Life Science

Journal of Medicinal Food

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Phytomedicine

PLOS ONE

Redox Biology

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Scientific Reports