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• 2005 – 2010 PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics ,University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJMS), NJ, USA.
• 1996 – 1997 MS Department of Biological Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon, Korea.
• 1992 – 1995 BS Department of Biological Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon, Korea.

• 2014- current Post-doctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• 2011 Post Doctoral associate, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA. Project: The functional analysis of Wnt signaling using chimeric frizzed receptors
• 2005 – 2010 Ph.D. thesis research, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Physiology and Biophysics, NJ, USA. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Jianjie Ma. Title: Molecular mechanism of MG53-mediated plasma membrane repair
• 2004 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejon, Korea. Project: Screening of substrates of metalloproteinases
• 2000 – 2001 Research Scientist, Toolgen, Inc. Daejon, Korea. Project: Construction and screening of human zinc finger domain library
• 1999 Research Scientist, Sungkyunkwan University, Medical College, Suwon, Korea. Project: Structural organization of Yeast mediator complex
• 1998 Research scientist, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), Seoul, Korea. Project: Development and optimization of yeast screening system for zinc finger expression