HWAN DREW KIM Ph.D | School Profile | Google Scholar | Orcid
2025 - Current, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
2025 - Current, Adjunct Professor, SeoulTech-KIRAMS Graduate Medical Sciences, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
2021 - Current, Advisory Board, EGC Therapetucs Inc.
2024 - 2025, Vice-director of RISE Project Division
2021 - 2025, Assistant, Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation
2021 - 2025, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation
Research Fellow (Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2021), Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2021), Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Advisor: Juan Melero-Martin PhD
PhD, School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Dissertation: Biomimetic scaffold-mediated in situ bone remodeling and rapid bone regeneration: whitlockite nanoparticles and biopolymers
Advisor: Nathaniel S. Hwang PhD
MS, School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Dissertation: Fabrication of photo-crosslinked and RGD-modified ECM-based hydrogels for functional cartilage tissue engineering
Advisor: Nathaniel S. Hwang PhD
BS, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (Cum Laude)
Advisor: Jane Jackman PhD
Editorial Board (Feb. 2025 - Present), Scientific Report
Planning Director (Jan. 2025 - Present), The Polymer Society of Korea,
Editorial Board (Jan. 2022 - Present), Journal: Polymer (Korea), Seoul, Korea
Vice-chair (Jan. 2022 - 2023), Korea Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, Seoul, Korea
SYIS Chair-Elect (Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2020), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative International Society, San Ramon, CA, USA
Asian Pacific Region Student and Young Investigator Session Chair-Elect
Predoctoral Research Fellow (Nov. 2015 - Feb. 2016), Department of Biomedical Engineering, UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA
Advisor: Shyni Varghese PhD (currently at Duke University)
REU Fellow (Sept. 2009 - May. 2012), Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, OH, USA
Advisor: Do-Gyoon Kim PhD
JIEC® Best Paper Award (대주학술상), The Korean Society for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2025)
CGBIO® Corporate's Emerging Scientist Award (시지바이오신진과학자상), Korean Society for Biomaterials (2024)
Miwon® Corporate's Emerging Scientist Award (미원상사신진과학자상), The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2022)
Best Presentation Award of 43rd Annual Meeting of the JSB, Japanese and Korean Society for Biomaterials® (2021)
Young Scientist Exchange Program Award Winner, Japanese and Korean Society for Biomaterials® (2021)
Encouragement Award of IBS Art in Science, Institute of Basic Science® (2021)
NIBEC Young Scientist Award, Korean and Japanese Society for Biomaterials® (2021)
Best Poster Presentation Award, Dr. M. Juda Folkman Research Day @ Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (2019)
Sinyang Young Researcher Award for Best Graduating PhD of the Year, Sinyang Cultural Foundation (2018)
Global Empowerment Program Winner (Selected as Top 5% Global PhD recipient), National Research Foundation of Korea (2017)
Dongjin Award for Outstanding Article for Best Graduate Students of the Year, Dongjin Semichem Co., Ltd (2017)
Best Poster Presentation Award, Korean Society for Biomaterials® (2017)
Global Empowerment Program Winner (Selected as Top 5% Global PhD recipient), National Research Foundation of Korea (2016)
Student Oral Award 1st Place, Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society® (2016)
BK 21+ Travel Abroad Grants, National Research Foundation of Korea (2016)
Best Poster Presentation Award, Korean Society for Biomaterials (2015)
Young Investigator Award, 7th World Congress on Preventive & Regenerative Medicine (2014)
Best Poster Presentation Award, 8th Asian Congress of Biotechnology Biannual Meeting (2013)
International Undergraduate Scholarship, The Ohio State University (2009 – 2012)