Kwang-Hyun Baek is a full professor of Department of Biomedical Science and a director of Cell & Gene Therapy Research Institute at CHA University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the department of Zoology and Genetics at Iowa State University in US in 1995 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. He has been serving as an editorial board member, a regional editor, and an editor-in-chief of many international journals. Current research and clinical interests are in the molecular genetics of ubiquitination and deubiquitination systems relevant to various cancers and stem cell differentiation and lineage. He first coined terms ubiquitomics and deubiquitomics in the field of the ubiquitin-proteasome system.
1987 B. S. in Biology, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, Korea
Thesis title : On the lactate dehydrogenase isozymes of Gallus gall
Domesticus
Major Professor: Dr. Sang-Yul Nam
Graduation Date: February, 1987.
1989 M. S. in Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Thesis title: Intragenic complementation between temperature-sensitive
lethal (2) giant larva alleles in Drosophila melanogaster.
Major Professor: Dr. William P. Hanratty.
Graduation Date: December, 1989.
1995 Ph. D. in Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Dissertation title: The role of D-raf in the terminal class signal
transduction pathway in Drosophila.
Major Professor: Dr. Linda Ambrosio
Graduation Date: December, 1995.
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