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I got a medical doctor degree from Konyang university, and received training in pediatrics. There are many pediatric mucosal diseases due to immature mucosal development. It makes me to get interested in mucosal immunity. So, I want to research various mucosal disorder during my postgraduate course :D  

I joined LSMI after finishing the resident program in Asan Medical Center Department of Surgery. The experiences with kidney transplantation patients led me to the field of immunology. My main research interests involve computational biology and the interaction between tissue and immune system. Discovering modifiable factors that allow immune cells to establish specific immune system residing in diverse tissues or organs may contribute to the development of a more effective defense system against various antigens.

I received a M.S. in February 2021 from POSTECH. In my graduate research, I studied treatment of alopecia areata and skin immunity. This led me to love studying the role of immune cells in peripheral tissue. In peripheral tissues, heterogeneous immune cell populations have their own kinetics and are responsible for immune responses and physiological processes. In the Lab of Skin and Mucosal Immunology, I would like to focus on BRMs. So, I want to define how BRMs control immune responses and their alternative functions in peripheral tissues. Finally, I hope my research will be a breakthrough in treating incurable diseases and contributes to the understanding of B cell immunology.  :)

I got a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST. I have suffered from atopic dermatitis (AD) for more than 20 years, which motivated me to study chronic inflammatory skin diseases like AD. Thus, my research interests include cutaneous immunity, allergy, and type 2 immune response. Indeed, it is challenging to comprehend type 2 inflammation due to its heterogeneity. As a dreaming scientist, however, I dream of elucidating the underlying mechanism and developing effective therapeutic approaches so that people like me no longer suffer from those diseases.

- MD, Yonsei Univ. College of Medicine (2018)

- Internship: Asan Medical Center (2019)

- Clinical Training: Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital (2022)

- Joined LSMI, GSMSE (2022.03-)

It is all about immunology. As I was going through training as an internal medicine specialist, I sensed that the majority of human diseases are related to immune dysregulation and that significant portion of immune pathogenesis remains unrevealed. Thus, I joined KAIST to fulfill the unmet needs of the clinical field. I am especially keen on unfolding the puzzling immunology of hematologic malignancies and opportunistic infections. I really wish that my hard work will help save lives :)

Human immunity is so complicated that lots of problems remain unrevealed, hence there are numerous people suffering from incurable diseases. Thus, I’d like to define relationship between immunological factors to find out the treatments. I made up my mind on immunology research after being graduated from Sungkyunkwan university. As I get to know more about immunology, it has motivated me to study the mystery of tissue-resident immune network, especially the BRMs. Ultimately, I hope my research enables further therapeutic approaches available to save the sufferings.

I received a bachelor’s degree from Korea university. Immune system keeps a very highly delicate and tensed balance between defeating enemies and protecting self. All immune responses are unintentionally regulated at the cellular and molecular level. Therefore, dysregulation of immune system has been likely to cause various immunological diseases. These beautiful mechanisms were enough to fascinate me. I dreamed research for immunity, especially adaptive immune response at peripheral tissues. In the Lab of Skin and Mucosal immunology, I want to elucidate numerous unrevealed immunological mechanisms. Furthermore, I hope my research contributes to branching point of therapy.

I joined the LSMI (Lab of Skin and Mucosal Immunology) in Apr. 2023 as a researcher. I got a Master of Science from AMIST (Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology) and studied mainly immune cell therapy against chronic myeloid leukemia based on NK cells. And also, I was involved to study other immune diseases (chronic rhinosinusitis, psoriasis, etc.). These various experiences made me be opened scientific insight broadly and improved my skills for immunological experiments. I‘m interested in research on innate or adaptive immune cells (characteristics, function, mechanism, etc.) in skin and mucosa. Among them, studying B cells is an unknown area to me, especially tissue-resident memory B cells (BRMs). In the LSMI Lab., I hope to clarify unrevealed characteristics of BRMs in the mucosa.

Throughout my Bachelor's degree, I cultivated an interest in immunology, particularly involving skin associated autoimmune diseases and cancer. Since then, I pursued my honours degree in Laura Mackay's laboratory at the Doherty Institute, where I focused on distinguishing the protective and pathologic effects of skin CD8+ tissue-resident memory (TRM) cells. Now I am continuing my studies at KAIST, and I hope to uncover some of the mechanisms involved with the establishment of tissue-resident memory B (BRM) cells! :) 

Immunity is one of the most complex system of biology that consists of both defensing against non-self and regenerating damaged self after case, and there are lots of phenomena to figure out. When I was an undergraduate degree student of Biological science at Sungkyunkwan university, I participated on research of lung-specific neutrophils and allergic asthma. Since then, I was always curious about many tissue-resident immune cell subpopulation and asthmatic pathology. Now in KAIST, I want to uncover B cell's role at many types of asthma, such as Th2-polarized or Th17-polarized form with resident memory B cells population or B cell's specific genes.

While pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences at Korea University, I became fascinated by the complexity of the immune system and the intricate interactions between cells, tissues, and organs. In particular, I found autoimmune diseases and tumors intriguing, as they involve an immune response to what was once recognized as "self." I aim to elucidate the pathology of these diseases using bioinformatic tools while also providing therapeutic insights. Additionally, I hope to investigate the function of B cells in diseases and explore the therapeutic potential of antibodies while studying at KAIST. Thanks :)

I earned my bachelor's degree from KAIST, where I majored in Biological Sciences and minored in the School of Computing. During my undergraduate studies, I developed a strong interest in immunology, particularly in understanding how the adaptive immune system responds to infections. I am especially drawn to the potential of integrating computational tools with experimental approaches to gain novel insights into immunology. In the Lab of Skin and Mucosal Immunology, I hope to further explore the unknown aspects of BRMs and mucosal immune responses.