Professor

Appointment

• November 2025 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea

• June 2022 - October 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 

    Advisor: Professor Philip A. Cole 

• June 2022 - October 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA   

    Advisor: Professor Philip A. Cole 

• March 2022 - May 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Advisor: Professor Mi Hee Lim 

Education

• 2022 Ph.D., Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Advisor: Professor Mi Hee Lim)

• 2017 M.S., Chemistry, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea (Advisor: Professor Mi Hee Lim)

• 2015 B.S., School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

Honors & Awards & Scholarships

• August 2018 – February 2022 National Scholarship (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)

• October 2021 Best Poster Award (The 128th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society, Busan, Korea)

• October 2019 Best Poster Award (2019 Korea Dementia Association Fall Assembly, Seoul, Korea)

• June 2019 Best Poster Award (International Conference on Bioinspired Small Molecule Activation, Seoul, Korea)

• May 2016 – February 2017 IBS Seed Research Scholarship in Soft and Living Matter (UNIST, Ulsan, Korea)

Representative Publications

• M. J. R. Yeo,† O. Zhang,† X. Xie,† E. Nam,† N. C. Payne, P. M. Gosavi, H. S. Kwok, I. Iram, C. Lee, J. Li, N. Chen, K. Nguyen, H. Jiang, Z. Wang, K. Lee, H. Mao, S. A. Harry, I. Barakat, M. Takahashi, A. L. Waterbury, M. Barone, A. Mattevi, S. A. Carr, N. D. Udeshi, L. Bar-Peled, P. A. Cole, R. Mazitschek, B. B. Liau,* N. Zheng* Nature 2025, 639, 232-240 (†Co-first Authorship) . 

“UM171 Glues Asymmetric CRL3-HDAC1/2 Assembly to Degrade CoREST Corepressors”

• C. Na,† M. Kim,† G. Kim, Y. Lin, Y.-H. Lee, W. Bal*, E. Nam,* M. H. Lim* ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2025, 16, 732-744 (*Corresponding Authorship). 

“Distinct Aggregation Behavior of N-terminally Truncated Aβ4-42 over Aβ1-42 in the Presence of Zn(II)”

• E. Nam, Y. Lin, J. Park, H. Do, J. Han, B. Jeong, S. Park, D. Y. Lee, M. Kim, J. Han,* M.-H. Baik,* Y.-H. Lee,* Mi Hee Lim* Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2307182.

“APP-C31: An Intracellular Promoter of Both Metal-Free and Metal-Bound Amyloid-β40 Aggregation and Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease”

• Z. Du,† E. Nam,† Y. Lin,† M. Hong, T. Molnár, I. Kondo, K. Ishimori, M.-H. Baik, Y.-H. Lee*, M. H. Lim*, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 5340-5349 (†Co-first Authorship) .

“Unveiling the Impact of Oxidation-driven Endogenous Protein Interactions on the Dynamics of Amyloid-β Aggregation and Toxicity”

•  E. Nam, J. Han, S. Choi, M. H. Lim* Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 7637-7640.

“Distinct Impact of Glycation towards the Aggregation and Toxicity of Murine and Human Amyloid-β”

•  E. Nam, G. Nam, M. H. Lim* Biochemistry 2020, 59, 15-17.

“Synaptic Copper, Amyloid-β, and Neurotransmitters in Alzheimer’s Disease”

• E. Nam,† J. S. Derrick,† S. Lee,† J. Kang, J. Han, S. J. C. Lee, S. W. Chung,* M. H. Lim* ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2018, 9, 2655-2666 (†Co-first Authorship) .

“Regulatory Activities of Dopamine and Its Derivatives toward Metal-Free and Metal-Induced Amyloid‑β Aggregation, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease”

• E. Nam,† J. Han,† J.-M. Suh, Y. Yi, M. H. Lim* Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2018, 43, 8-14 (†Co-first Authorship) .

“Link of Impaired Metal Ion Homeostasis to Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Neurons”

• S. Kim,† H. J. Lee,† E. Nam,† D. Jeong, J. Cho,* M. H. Lim,* Y. You* ACS Omega 2018, 3, 5141-5154 (†Co-first Authorship) .

“Tailoring Hydrophobic Interactions between Probes and Amyloid-β Peptides for Fluorescent Monitoring Amyloid-β Aggregation”

•  S. J. C. Lee,† E. Nam,† H. J. Lee, M. G. Savelieff, M. H. Lim* Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 310-323 (†Co-first Authorship) .

“Towards an Understanding of Amyloid-β Oligomers: Characterization, Toxicity Mechanisms, and Inhibitors”