Professor 

EDUCATION

   Degree-Granting Education

• Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, Republic of, BS, 1989, Molecular Biology

• Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, Republic of, MS, 1993, Molecular Biology

Advisor; Kyu-Won Kim PHD

• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, PHD, 1999, Molecular Medicine

Advisor; Yoshiaki Ito MD/PHD. 

Thesis: Mutual activation of Ets-1 and AML1 DNA binding by direct interaction of their autoinhibitory domains

   Postgraduate Training

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, Dr. Jacqueline E. Lee, 4/1999-1/2003

• Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Neurological Diseases, Center for Neurological Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Jie Shen, 2/2003-8/2004

EXPERIENCE/SERVICE

  Academic Appointments

• Instructor, Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology - Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 9/2004-8/2010

• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor, College of Pharmacy, SookMyung  University, Seoul, Korea, 9/2010- present

• Director, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Sookmyung Women's University, 2020. 03~ 2021.08

• Visitng Professor, University of Chicago, 2021.09~2022.08

Other Appointments

• Committed Researcher, Genetic Engineering Research Institute, 3/1992-6/1993

• Researcher, Korea Basic Science Center, 6/1993-4/1995

• Graduate Student Researcher, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 4/1995-3/1999

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.; Member, 2002-2004

• Society for Developmental Biology, Bethesda, Maryland ; Member, 2003-2005

• American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Member, 2007-present

• Korean Pharmaceutical Society, Seoul Korea ; Life Member, 2010-

• Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Seoul, Korea ; Member, 2010-present 

• Korean Society for Vascular Biology and Medicine Korean Society for Vascular Biology and Medicine, Daejpon : Member, 2019 - present

DATE OF LAST CV UPDATE

02-26-26