Members

Professor

jinwoo.ch@khu.ac.kr

Laboratory of Pharmacogenetics

College of Pharmacy

Kyung Hee University

2003 B.S : Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkunkwan University

2009 MS / Ph.D. : College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University

Current) Director, Drug Target Network Analysis Center

Current) Adjunct Professor, Kyung Hee University Medical Center

Current) Associate Director, Institute of Convergence Pharmaceutical Sciences

Current) Adjunct Professor, Department of Regulatory Science

Current) Expert Committee Member, Health New Technology Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Current) Expert Committee Member, Science and Technology Business Division, Ministry of Science and ICT

Current) Expert Committee Member, Gene Therapy Product Planning Division, Ministry of Science and ICT

Current) Expert Committee Member, National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation

Current) Expert Committee Member, Korea Institute of Drug Safety & Risk Management

Current) Investment Review Committee Member, Korea Drug Development Fund

Current) Chair of the Academic Committee and Chair of the Steering

Committee, Korean Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

Current) Vice Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmaceutical Society of Korea

Former) Associate Dean, College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University

Former) Director, Institute of East-West Pharmaceutical Sciences

Former) Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Former) Adjacent Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

- Research on the correlation between Cancer Stem Cells and metastatic cancer cells

- Identification of the cell biological characteristics of Circulating Tumor Cells

- Gene therapy for colorectal cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, head and neck cancer, and other cancers

- Research on the reversal of anticancer drug resistance

- Algorithms for identifying relationships between drugs and genetic alterations

- Drug repositioning based on transcriptome and gene network analysis

- Network analysis of causal relationships among disease-related genes and discovery of novel targets

- Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis and designing therapeutic strategies

- Understanding network changes from primitive cells to cancer stem cells

- Discovery of gene therapies for tumors and degenerative neurological diseases

The professor of the year (2016, Wonkwang University)

The Grand prize winner for Special Academic Scholar (2016, Wonkwang university)

Chair and Secretary General (The 14th International Photodynamictherapy Association, Seoul, May 2013)