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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
1998 …2024

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Education

- 2004-2010 Ph.D., Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin
- 1997-1999 M.S., Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University
- 1993-1997 B.S., Department of Chemistry, Seoul National Universtiy

Professional Experience

- 2019-present Associate Professor, Department of New Biology, DGIST
- 2016-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of New Biology, DGIST
- 2013-2016 Senior Staff Researcher, Well-Aging Research Center, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
- 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDDK, NIH

Research Interests

- Mechanism of cellular senescence and reversing aging
- Structural and functional studies of age-related proteins
- Molecular mechanism of eukaryotic DNA polymerases

Major Research Achievements

- Cho et al., Nintedanib induces senolytic effect via STAT3 inhibition. Cell Death Dis. (2022) 13(9):760.
- Park et al., Disruption of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking as a cellular senescence driver. Exp Mol Med. (2021), 53(6):1092-1108.
- Kang et al., Chemical screening identifies ATM as a target for alleviating senescence. Nature Chem Biol (2017), 13(6):616-623
- Lee et al., How a homolog of high-fidelity replicases conducts mutagenic DNA synthesis. Nature Struct Mol Biol, (2015) 22(4):298-303
- Lee et al., Structural insight into processive human mitochondrial DNA synthesis and disease-related polymerase mutations. Cell (2009) 139:312-324

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  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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