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Curriculum vitae
Dr. Dong-Ho Nahm received his M.D. title from Yonsei University Medical College in 1989, and his M.S. title by the study on the <antigen-binding characteristics of anti-neuronal cell autoantibody in systemic lupus erythematosus>, and his Ph.D. title by the study on the <house dust mite antigen-specific immune complex in the serum samples of patients with bronchial asthma> from Yonsei University Graduate School, Korea, in 1992 and 1995, respectively.
He received Board of lnternal Medicine in 1994 and received Board of Allergy and Clinical lmmunology in 1998.
He has been involved in the in-patient and out-patient care of patients with allergic and rheumatic diseases in the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Ajou University Hospital, Korea from 1995 to the present.
He received Post-Doctoral Fellow training at Laboratory of Allergic Diseases (LAD) of National lnstitutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA from 2002 to 2003 and carried out a proteomics study to identify the proteins involved in the signaling pathway in mast cells using mass spectrometry analysis.
Current research topic is a development of a new personalized immunomodulatory therapy for atopic dermatitis.
[Major clinical and research contributions]
Dr. Dong-Ho Nahm and colleagues
(1) identified a cytokeratin 18 protein as an airway epithelial autoantigen associated with nonallergic asthma in 2002,
(2) identified an alpha-enolase protein as an autoantigen associated with severe asthma in 2006,
(3) developed a modified immunotherapy for severe refractory atopic dermatitis with a combination of allergen immunotherapy and histamine-immunoglobulin complex in 2008,
(4) have been trying to develop a new personalized immunomodulatory therapy for atopic dermatitis since 2011.
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A102065
NRF-2007-0055715
202-2004-1-E00107