Jong Hwa Bhak

PROFESSOR
school of life sciences
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Kuwait

Biography

2014-present: Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UNIST. Korea 2009-2014: Director, Theragen BiO Inst. TheragenEtex, Korea 2005-2009: Director, KOBIC, KRIBB, Korea 2003-2005: Associate Professor, Biosystems Dept. KAIIST, Korea 2001-2003: Group leader, MRC-DUNN, Cambridge, Bioinformatics, UK 1999-2001: Research Fellow, EBI, Dr. Liisa Holm, Cambridge, UK 1998-1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics Dept. Dr. George Church lab, Harvard Medical School. USA 1994-1997: MRC-CPE, Cambridge, Bioinformatics, Ph.D., with Drs. Tim Hubbard and Cyrus Chothia. UK. 1990-1994: Aberdeen University, Biochemistry BSc. Honours. Scotland, UK.

Research Intrest

Large scale genomic data analyses to understand diseases and aging processes.

List of Publications
Sung-Min Ahn et al.(2009)The first Korean genome sequence and analysis: Full genome sequencing for a socio-ethnic group.Genome Research
Sung-Min Ahn et al.(2009)The first Korean genome sequence and analysis: Full genome sequencing for a socio-ethnic group.Genome Research
Ball et al.(2012)A public resource facilitating clinical use of genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.
Yun Sung Cho et al.(2013)Tiger genome and comparative analysis with lion and snow leopard genomes. Nature Communications.
Yeon-Su Lee et al.(2014)Genomic profile analysis of diffuse-type gastric cancers. Genome Biology.

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