Name | Field of Research | Disease or symptom to study | Summary of Research | Email/Tel | |
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Dongwoo Khang, Ph.D. Professor College of Medicine |
Nano Medicine | Nano Medicine | Treating refractory tumors and inflammatory diseases by targeting the cancer or inflammatory cells | dkhang@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6515 |
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Yong Ho Kim, Ph.D Asst. Professor College of Medicine |
Neuroscience | Pain | Study of pathological mechanisms for paresthesia such as pain and itching. To this end, a comprehensive study of sensory development/perception and behavior. | euro16@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6115 |
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Ik Soo Kim, PhD Asst. Professor College of Medicine |
Epigenetics, Systems biology | Developmental disease, Cancer (Metastasis) | Resolving mechanisms of cell fate decision by reconstruction of cellular differentiation trajectory using single cell multiomics technology. Rewiring cell fates in developmental or cancer disease model. | iksookim@gachon.ac.kr +82328996586 |
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Il-Young Kim, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Endocrinology | Muscle Wasting Diseases/Metabolic Diseases/Exercise Physiology | Study on the role of skeletal muscle (metabolism) in health and disease (e.g., diabetes, sarcopenia, & cancer cachexia) in humans, animals, and cells: explorations of metabolic flux (using stable isotope tracers) and molecular mechanisms underlying effect | iykim@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6599 |
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Jaehong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. Professor College of Medicine |
Oncology, vascular biology | Prostate diseases and cancers | Finding the cause of resistance against prostate cancer treatment among intractable cancers and developing the treatment chemicals and techniques for this cancer. For this purpose, comprehensive study of specific signaling system involved by exploring mec | geretics@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6441 |
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Woo-Jae Park, MD, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Metabolism/Lipid Metabolism | Obesity/ Cholelithiasis/ | Study on roles of changes of sphingolipids and its mechanisms in obesity, cholelithiasis and breast cancer and development of sphingolipids-based therapeutics | ooze@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6417 |
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Chul-Kyu Park, Ph.D. Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Neuroscience | Pain/Itching | Comprehensive study on mechanisms of initiation, transduction and regulation of signaling systems in pain/itching sense and ultimately development of specific therapeutics from the chemicals which interfere with these mechanisms. | pck0708@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6692 |
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Young-An Bae, Ph.D. Profssor College of Medicine |
Receptor/Signal Transduction | clonorchiasis | Pathophysiology of Clonorchiasis which occurs by the invasion of Clonorchis sinesis into human biliary tract and pathogenesis of hepatobiliary diseases induced by Clonorchiasis | yabae@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-820-6060 |
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Hyeon-Man Baek, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering |
Metabolism/Neuroscience | Cancer/Degenerative Diseases/Metabolic Diseases | Development of new therapeutics and cure-progress monitoring technique for degenerative brain diseases (dementia and Parkinson’s disease) and metabolic diseases by MRI and MRS techniques and also by developing biomarkers. Brain mapping by analysis of MTRI | hmbaek98@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6678 |
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Kyunghee Byun, PhD Associate Professor College of Medicine |
Proteomics/Regenerative Medicine | Neurological/Metabolic Diseases | Studies on pathophysiology and pathogenesis of neurological and metabolic diseases and development of drugs and techniques for their treatment using ohmic and imaging techniques | khbyun1@gachon.ac.kr +82-32-899-6511 |