Biography

I received my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2003 and took a postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratories for Tissue Engineering and Cellular Therapeutics at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston and the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine where I am currently a faculty member. I am also cross-appointed to the Virginia Tech-WFU Biomedical Engineering and Science.

Synopsis of Area of Interest: Designing 3D microenvironments for tissue engineering applications; 3D integrated tissue-organ printing (ITOP) system for bioengineering complex, composite tissues, and organs; bio-adhesion ad bio-integration between biomaterials and cell/tissue; drug/protein delivery system; bioconjugation and polymer synthesis; bioreactor system for preconditioning; in vitro microphysiological system; NIR fluorescence-based noninvasive monitoring system.