연구소 소개
Korea Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology
연구소 소개
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Physics & Bioengineering,
University of California, Berkeley, USA (2000)B.S. in Biophysics,
University of California, Berkeley, USA (1996)Major Academic Appointments
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS), USA (2020–Present)
Senior Investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), USA (2017–Present)
Full Professor (Tenured), University of California, Berkeley, USA
Bioengineering (2005–2019)Chair Professor, Biosystems Science & Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (2006–2007)
Centennial Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2016–2018)
(Medicine / Biomedical Engineering / Chemistry & Physics)Leadership
Director, POSTECH NRL Global Healthcare & Bioengineering Research Institute (K-BIGHEART), Korea; POSTECH Distinguished (Endowed) Professor (Present)
Founding Director, Biomedical Institute for Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)
UC Berkeley, USA (2009–2016)Founding Director, Institute of Quantum Biophysics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (2018–Present)
Major Honors
Arnold & Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley (2010–2015; 2015–2020)
Fulbright Scholar (2014)
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2012)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Grand Challenges Award(2011)
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Finalist (2011)
Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (2010)
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (2010)
Siebel Scholar Award (2009)
Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Chair Professor, UC Berkeley (2005)
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2003)
Major publications
"Blood–brain barrier injury and neuroinflammation induced by SARS-CoV-2 in a lung–brain microphysiological system", Nature Biomed. Eng (8, 1053-1068), 2024
"Dynamic monitoring of oscillatory enzyme activity of individual live bacteria via nanoplasmonic optical antennas", Nature Photonics (17, 904-911), 2023
"Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation", Nature Materials (21, 540-546), 2022
"Human mini-brain models", Nature Biomed Eng (5, 11-25). 2021
"Exosome detection via the ultrafast-isolation system: EXODUS", Nature Methods (18, 212-218), 2021
Intellectual Property
US Patent No. 11,446,667 (Issued 2022) "Integrated molecular diagnostics system (iMDx) and method for dengue fever"
US Patent No. 11,130,993 (Issued 2021) "LED driven plasmonic heating apparatus for nucleic acids amplification"
US Patent No. 10,766,034 (Issued 2021) "Optical cavity PCR"
US Patent No. 10,864,517 (Issued 2020) "Vacuum battery system for portable microfluidic pumping"
US Patent No. 10,843,189 (Issued 2020) "Methods and apparatus for cell culture array"