Current Members

Kyo Bin Kang, Ph.D.

Kyo Bin earned his BS in Pharmacy from Seoul National University (2010), and then earned his MS (2012) and PhD (2016) in Pharmacognosy from Seoul National University, under advising of the late Prof. Sang Hyun Sung. After PhD, he stayed in the same lab as a postdoctoral researcher and worked on several LC-MS-based plant metabolomics projects. In March 2018, he joined Pieter Dorrestein's lab as a postdoc in University of California, San Diego, performing a collaborative research with William Gerwick's lab in Scripps Institute of Oceanography to develop new methodology for bioactive natural product discovery based on modern analytical platforms, especially tandem mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and genome-mining.  

He started his lab at College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University in September 2018.

Eunjin Park, Ph.D.

Postdoc (Sep 2024 – present)

Eunjin earned her PhD at Pharmacognosy from College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University in 2024. Her research focuses on exploring natural products for medicinal applications and understanding their ecological metabolic functions.

Huong T. Pham 

Ph.D. course (Sep 2021 – present)
Master (Sep 2019 – Aug 2021) *outstanding thesis award

Houng is trying to reveal how fungal-fungal and fungal-bacterial interactions alter the biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites.

Eunah Jeong

Ph.D. course (Mar 2022 – present)
Master (Mar 2020 – Feb 2022) *outstanding thesis award

Eunah is working on the discovery of ferroptosis inhibitors from fungal natural products, using LC-MS/MS-based metabolomics and in silico screening techniques.

Kyungha Lee

Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 – present)
Master (Mar 2021 – Feb 2023)

Kyungha is investigating how human skin and gut symbiotic bacteria metabolize phytochemicals in personal care products and foods.

Yukyung Choi

Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 – present)

Yukyung is investigating how fungi living in marine environments utilize halogens in their specialized metabolites. She is also working on plant-herbivore insect interactions.

Rebecca Forrester

Undergraduate Internship (Nov 2025 – Apr 2026)

Rebecca studied pharmacy at the University of Regensburg in Germany from March 2020 to April 2025. She is presently completing a six-month internship at our lab in order to obtain her pharmaceutical license in Germany.