Education
- B.S. 1998, Kyung Hee University (Seoul, Korea)
- M.S. 2000, KAIST (Taejon, Korea)
- Ph.D. 2004, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2004-2007, The Scrrips Research Institute
Links
- KBLEE Group
- NSF IGERT on Biointerfaces
- Institute for Advanced Materials, Device and Nanotechnology
- Laboratory for Surface Modification
- The Rutgers Stem Cell Research Center
Awards & Honors
- NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2009~2014)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Grant (2014~2015)
- Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship, Nanotechnologies in Cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2013)
- Bush Biomedical Grant Award (2013~2014)
- New Jersey Spinal Cord Exploratory Research Award (2013~2015)
- Board of Trustees Research Award for Scholarly Excellence (2013)
- Faculty Research Award, Rutgers University (2012~2013)
- Johnson and Johnson Proof-of-Concept Award (2011~2012)
- New Jersey Spinal Cord Research Award (2009~2013)
- Grant Proposal Development Award, Rutgers University (2008)
- CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine) Post-doctoral Fellowship (2006~2007)
- NSEC (Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center) Outstanding Research Award, Northwestern University (2004)
- MRS (Materials Research Society) Graduate Student Award (2003) Korean-American Scholarship (2003)
- L. Carroll King Award for Excellence Chemistry Teaching, Northwestern University (2001)
- University Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University (2001)
- Honor scholarship, Kyung Hee University (95-97)
- NSEC Board of Student Advisors (2000-2004)
