중앙대학교 융합공학부 최종훈 교수님이 Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize 2022 수상자로 선정되었습니다. Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize는 일본생물공학회에서는 일본 이외의 아시아 젊은 과학자들에게 생명공학 분야의 연구를 촉진하고 뛰어난 업적을 기리기 위한 45세 이하에게 수여되는 상으로 2008년은 김동명 교수님 (충남대), 2014년도 정기준 교수님 (KAIST)에 이어 올해 3번째 한국 과학자 수상입니다.

Jonghoon Choi

Affiliation:
Chung-Ang University, Seoul Korea

Research title for the award:
Nanoscale liposomes encapsulating oxygen saturated buffers for the reverse of hypoxia and drug delivery

Dr. Jonghoon Choi is an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Engineering at Chung-Ang University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Dentistry at Yonsei University. Dr. Choi is currently a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the Seoul National University and then his Ph.D. degree also in ChemE at the University of Maryland, USA. After three years of training as a postdoc in Johns Hopkins Medicine and MIT, he has been an independent PI in Korea since the year 2012.

Dr. Choi’s research aims to develop novel nanobiosensors and smart nanobiomaterials for their applications in nanomedicine. Dr. Choi has authored more than 110 SCI(E) journal articles and other numerous publications, and patent/disclosure applications. His work has been published in top journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Journal of Controlled Release, and Journal of the American Chemical Society, which has been cited >3200 times with the h-index over 30 to date. Dr. Choi has been serving as an editorial board member for SCI(E) Journals, including PLoS ONE, Analytical Sciences, and Biotechnology & Bioprocess Engineering.
 

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