JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH AND ONCOBIOLOGY (ISSN:2517-7370)

Biography:

Kwang-Hyun Baek has completed his first degree in Bachelor of Science from Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, Korea. He completed his Master of Science from the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology and Genetics at Iowa State University in the 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 is currently working as a professor of Department of Biomedical Science and a director of Cell & Gene Therapy Research Institute at CHA University in Korea.

Research Interests:

His research interest mainly focuses on molecular genetics of ubiquitination and deubiquitination systems relevant to various cancers and stem cell differentiation and lineage. He first coined terms ubiquitous and deubiquitomics in the field of the ubiquitin-proteasome system. In addition, he is interested in genomics and proteomics during stem cell proliferation, differentiation, and reprogramming along with cancer cell proliferation.