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RESEARCH FIELD

• Fundamental processes related to cancer and infectious diseases.

• DNA metabolism (DNA degradation and modification)

• RNA metabolism (RNA transcription, degradation, splicing processes)

• Protein metabolism (Posttranscriptional modification and Protein degradation)

EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE

• 08/2023-present  : Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• 02/2012- 08/2023: Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

• 11/2006-01/2012 : Post-doctoral fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

• 05/2006-10/2006 : Post-doctoral fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

• 09/2002-04/2006 : Ph.D. MEMS, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 

HONORS_AWARDS

• TJ Park Science Fellowship : 2014

• Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellowship: 2007-2010

• Best Postdoctoral Researcher Award in Missouri Biophysics Symposium: March, 11, 2011

• Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA), 2006